The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.