Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

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.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

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