It Is Difficult To Get A Man

You Don't Have To Be Satisfied With America As You Find It. You Can Change It. I Didn't Like The Way I Found America Some Sixty Years Ago, And I've Been Trying To Change It Ever Since.

Fascism Is Capitalism Plus Murder.

Man Is An Evasive Beast, Given To Cultivating Strange Notions About Himself. He Is Humiliated By His Simian Ancestry, And Tries To Deny His Animal Nature, To Persuade Himself That He Is Not Limited By Its Weaknesses Nor Concerned In Its Fate. And This Impulse May Be Harmless, When It Is Genuine. But What Are We To Say When We See The Formulas Of Heroic Self-deception Made Use Of By Unheroic Self-indulgence?

And As For Other Men, Who Worked In Tank-rooms Full Of Steam, And In Some Of Which There Were Open Vats Near The Level Of The Floor, Their Peculiar Trouble Was That They Fell Into The Vats; And When They Were Fished Out, There Was Never Enough Of Them Left To Be Worth Exhibiting,-sometimes They Would Be Overlooked For Days, Till All But The Bones Of Them Had Gone Out Into The World As Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This Contributed To The Passing Of The Pure Food Act Of 1906.

It Was All So Very Businesslike That One Watched It Fascinated. It Was Pork-making By Machinery, Pork-making By Applied Mathematics. And Yet Somehow The Most Matter-of-fact Person Could Not Help Thinking Of The Hogs; They Were So Innocent, They Came So Very Trustingly; And They Were So Very Human In Their Protests - And So Perfectly Within Their Rights! They Had Done Nothing To Deserve It; And It Was Adding Insult To Injury, As The Thing Was Done Here, Swinging Them Up In This Cold-blooded, Impersonal Way, Without Pretence At Apology, Without The Homage Of A Tear.