“[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections.”

It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.

The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.

The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some ‘reputable’ economist, since there is no single standard to which all ‘reputable’ economists must repair.

To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other.

The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don’t put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

You see all races in music, and in dance and theatre, so why can’t we see it in fashion?

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we’re evolving as a race.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

We stand United against Racism!

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.