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

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.