The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic... enterprise and the state.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have... a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man ... begins and also largely ends with the ef...fect of one all-embracing force. That is organization--the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits ...such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are c...omfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will belong to that minority which, according to current Washington doctrine, must be protected in its affluence lest its ener...gy and initiative be impaired. Your position will be in contrast to that of the poor, to whom money, especially if it is from public sources, is held to be deeply damaging.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're ...looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »