Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

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 emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Example is better than precept.

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.