Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from bein…

We have a war going on - I have family in that war - yet we're talking about steroids. ... If everybody in the world got on steroids, we'll still lose more kid…

...no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there …