The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees and hears and reads, people he talks to, and places he visits. Any given reformer must be content to take a small and obscure place in a chain of cumulative pressures.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

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

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.