I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

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.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.