The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is a chaos.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

Human history, if you read it right, is the record of the efforts to tame Father. Next to striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security