Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.