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

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

“No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.”

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

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

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

“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.”

“It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.”

“It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punish...”

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”