Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 9, 1911 Death: August 2, 1972
A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution t….
We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature..
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance..
American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has s….
Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's….
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the….
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the s….
Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions..
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precise….
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect..
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least..
No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to th….
The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutio….
The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity..
The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to th….
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense a….
Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there ….
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality..
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries,….
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- "..
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface..