It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.