Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.