In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.