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

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

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.

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.

A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

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

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.