There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.