The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.