Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.