Whatever you put your attention on becomes energized. Whatever you take your attention away from dwindles
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to. . . teach you our science, to show you your errors. '. . . We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.
Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason to imagine that saturation shopping could be a source of instability to the U. S. world position?
Labor is the handmaid of religion.
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way