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.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

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

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.