But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.