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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era’s dominant ideas.

Great ideology creates great times.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won’t be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.