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

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

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

Balance is balancing.

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.