Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate. Consequently th

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say no to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children

So shines a good deed in a weary world

A nation is only an individual multiplied