...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to read more

...far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they read more

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns read more

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; read more

...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.