Every President of the United States since Harry Truman has proclaimed that it is the duty of the citizen to consume.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transcends it. There is light in the darkness.

The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life.

With man more and more ubiquitous, with nature transformed from a mysterious given into a product of the human will, divinity is in crisis.

Throughout the nineteenth century, there was a conservative existentialism which protested against the rationalization of life in a machine society.

There was a succession of technological floods, and each new generation looked back to its youth like Father Noah.

How can can one defend the sober virtues of Protestant individualism by disaffiliating from the world?

With the appearance of the modern working class, driven to economic and political organization by the necessities of daily life, a social force had come into being that would be impelled toward the theory and practice of justice.

The very development of the American city has removed poverty from the living, emotional experience of millions upon millions of middle-class Americans.