But something more than this has happened which is the loss of a moral sense, of knowing the difference between right and wrong, and of being governed by it. Moral sense is having the sense of what is inherently right and wrong, and of following your belief in what is right.

Where's the anger and outrage over public and individual injustices? Somehow people don't take wrongdoing seriously. Perhaps there's just too much of it. We're not surprised anymore. We're just used to it.

History's lessons move very slowly. People don't put them into operation right away, when they've become visible, but only when they rise to the surface, and begin to flood the bottoms of your cellars, only when they affect your own living conditions.

We've become accustomed to and almost satisfied with people in government who are either venal or stupid. I wonder if we haven't just accepted things as they are without retaining a desire for a better man or for a better society than we have created.

Advertising is deception. But we're accustomed to being deceived. We allow ourselves to be deceived. Advertising is really responsible for a lot in the deterioration of public perceptions.