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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.