If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

The assets back of these notes were, it need hardly be said, minuscule and evanescent. Leverage once again.