In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one cl… - Sinclair Lewis

What I fight in Zenith is the standardization of thought, and, of course, the traditions of competition. The real villains of the piece are the clean, kind, industrious Family Men who use every known brand of trickery and cruelty to insure the prosperity of their cubs. The worst thing about these fellows is that they're so good and, in their work at least, so intelligent. You can't hate them properly, and yet their standardized minds are the enemy. ~ Ch. 7

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Everything seemed confused and contradictory, and he longed for one clear command from a divine martinet. ~ Ch. 7