the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

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.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.