Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul GoodmanIt takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
Paul GoodmanWe certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.
Paul GoodmanThe irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.
Paul GoodmanTo consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assumes that some people really know better in a way that must seem arbitrary to most. In a large sense it is certainly democratic, in that it makes the great man serve as a man.
Paul Goodman