The Simple Truth Is That Our Businessmen

Considered Now As A Possession, One May Define Culture As The Residuum Of A Large Body Of Useless Knowledge That Has Been Well And Truly Forgotten.

Above All Things The Mass-mind Is Most Bitterly Resentful Of Superiority. It Will Not Tolerate The Thought Of An Elite; And Under A Political System Of Universal Suffrage, The Mass-mind Is Enabled To Make Its Antipathies Prevail.

The Practical Reason For Freedom Is That Freedom Seems To Be The Only Condition Under Which Any Kind Of Substantial Moral Fiber Can Be Developed - We Have Tried Law, Compulsion And Authoritarianism Of Various Kinds, And The Result Is Nothing To Be Proud Of.

I Am Said To Be Difficult Of Acquaintance, Unwilling To Meet Any One Half Way, And Showing A Social Manner Which Is Easy, Not Diffident, But Formal And Unresponsive, Tending Constantly To Hold People Off.

The State Did Not Originate In Any Form Of Social Agreement, Or With Any Disinterested View Of Promoting Order And Justice. Far Otherwise. The State Originated In Conquest And Confiscation, As A Device For Maintaining The Stratification Of Society Permanently Into Two Classes-an Owning And Exploiting Class, Relatively Small, And A Propertyless Dependent Class. . . . No State Known To History Originated In Any Other Manner, Or For Any Other Purpose Than To Enable The Continuous Economic Exploitation Of One Class By Another.