A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: th...is is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with th...e sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation bet...ter to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.... Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you... will, balances itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"A sigh for every so many breath, And for every so many sigh a death.... That's what I always tell my wife Is the multiplication table of life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of th...e ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a mul...tiplication of mediocrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »