You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.