Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

A decline of exuberance is just barely noticeable in America, making itself felt particularly among the most highly educated and the well-to-do in a loss of appetite for work and perhaps even for leisure.

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.