The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

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.

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.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

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

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.