If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.