The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.