“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 state was made for man, not man for state.”

“When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.”