No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Every thought is an afterthought.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.