Our National Experience In Americanizing

I Have Always Used The World Of Make-believe With A Certain Desperation.

... Oh, I Long To Prove Myself By Writing! The Best Seems To Die In Me When I Give It Up. It Is The Self I Love--not This Efficient, Philanthropic Self.

The Mere Fact Of Leaving Ultimate Social Control In The Hands Of The People Has Not Guaranteed That Men Will Be Able To Conduct Their Lives As Free Men. Those Societies Where Men Know They Are Free Are Often Democracies, But Sometimes They Have Strong Chiefs And Kings.they Have, However, One Common Characteristic: They Are All Alike In Making Certain Freedoms Common To All Citizens, And Inalienable.

Virtue Begins When We Dedicate Ourselves Actively To The Job Of Gratitude.

The Psychological Consequences Of This Spread Of White Culture Have Been Out Of All Proportion To The Materialistic. This World-wide Cultural Diffusion Has Protected Us As Man Had Never Been Protected Before From Having To Take Seriously The Civilizations Of Other Peoples; It Has Given To Our Culture A Massive Universality That We Have Long Ceased To Account For Historically, And Which We Read Off Rather As Necessary And Inevitable.