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

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

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.