“The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.”

“No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.”

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment...”

“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these indivi...”

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

“Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.”

“There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.”

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossi...”

“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”

“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”

“Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.”