It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television add...icts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... represent...ations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the fam...ily rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year ...less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine... than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated.... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones... (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which ... repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »