Example is better than precept.

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.

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.