I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Example is better than precept.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.