Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

We are made kind by being kind.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.