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

The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

Most problems are caused by solutions.

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.

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