Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.