The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old crow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them

In a time of deepening crisis in the underdeveloped world, of social malaise in the affluent societies . . it seems likely that Gandhi's ideas and techniques will become increasingly relevant.