The State Of Perpetual Emptiness

Dissent Is What Rescues Democracy From A Quiet Death Behind Closed Doors.

The American Press Is, And Always Has Been, A Booster Press, Its Editorial Pages Characteristically Advancing The Same Arguments As The Paid Advertising Copy.

But The Line Of Thought That I'd Been Chasing For Several Days Was Implicit In The Ruins Of The Old Roman Empire, Which Gradually Destroyed Itself By Substituting The Faith In A Legion Of Miraculous Words For The Strength Of Armies And The Weight Of Walls.

I Never Can Pass By The Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New York Without Thinking Of It Not As A Gallery Of Living Portraits But As A Cemetery Of Tax-deductible Wealth.

It Isn't Money Itself That Causes The Trouble, But The Use Of Money As Votive Offering And Pagan Ornament.