Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.