William H. WhyteThinkers

Arguing is often not a result of people misunderstanding one another, but of holding different goals.

Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

The Organization man is he who comes as a result of a shift in the goal of American organizations from the cultivation of the individual to the cultivation of the organization at the expense of the individual.

The Street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.