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

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

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