The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”