Individual Freedom And Individual Equality Cannot Co-exist.

I Have Looked Warily At Anthropologists Ever Since The Day When I Went To Hear A Great Greek Scholar Lecture On The Iliad, And Listened For An Hour To Talk About Bull-roarers And Leopard-societies.

... The More We Recruit From Immigrants Who Bring No Personal Traditions With Them, The More America Is Going To Ignore The Things Of The Spirit. No One Whose Consuming Desire Is Either For Food Or For Motor-cars Is Going To Care About Culture, Or Even Know What It Is.

... It Is A Great Mistake To Confuse Conventionality With Simplicity ... It Takes A Good Deal Of Intelligence And A Great Many Inhibitions To Follow A Social Code.

Men Demand Everything And Are Not Satisfied Until Sex Blinds Them Into Thinking They Have Got It.

You Can Be Slum-born And Slum-bred And Still Achieve Something Worth While; But It Is A Stupid Inverted Snobbishness To Be Proud Of It. If One Had A Right To Be Proud Of Anything, It Would Be Of A Continued Decent Tradition Back Of One.