The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

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

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

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