I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangst….

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….

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precise….

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 family is the American fascism..

Few great men could pass personnel..

It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope..

Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to b….

Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themse….

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….

Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would y….

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled ….

It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries,….

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the sa….

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activit….

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality..

In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is e….

To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain o….

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man..

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the….

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface..