A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

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.

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

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.