By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.