The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and be...hind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one thing that enslaves people more than any other to the servitude of war is nationalism--the patriotic cant--Religious cant ...is feeble; its on a down slope fighting to hold territory--but the patriotism--all the noxious influences of the world seem to have thrown their tentacles about it--Its the mask of all the trade-greed & the glory-breed--and the asininity that makes people insist on sacrificing themselves on the nearest altar--no matter how brazen the God above it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles... that the mention of women's baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »