The beaux and the babies, the servant troubles, and the social aspirations of the other girls seemed to me superficial. My work di...d not. I was professional. I could earn my own money, or I could be fired if I were inefficient. It was something to get your teeth into. It was living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are... not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, ma...sculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are--and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficie...ncy to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »