"For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the …"

"The problem of society is not how to abolish evil, but how to make it productive."

"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."

"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective f…"

"The metropolis exacts from man a different kind of consciousness than does rural life."