One of the baseball-team owners approached me and said: "If you become baseball commissioner, you're going to have to deal with 28... big egos," and I said, "For me, that's a 72% reduction."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and... implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.... The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had... the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for ...civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put dow...n a revolutionary minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only prete...nding, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »