With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Saints are usually killed by their own people.

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

People, if given the choice between anarchy and dictatorship, will always choose dictatorship because anarchy is the worst dictatorship of all.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.