We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.