Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.