It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.