In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

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

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

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.

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

You cannot know what you do not feel.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.