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.

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

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

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.

Example is better than precept.

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

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