In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.