“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”

Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)
Context: Because machines could be made progressively more and more efficient, Western man came to believe that men and societies would automatically register a corresponding moral and spiritual improvement. Attention and allegiance came to be paid, not to Eternity, but to the Utopian future. External circumstances came to be regarded as more important than states of mind about external circumstances, and the end of human life was held to be action, with contemplation as a means to that end. These false and historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life. And so effective has been the propaganda that even professing Christians accept the heresy unquestioningly and are quite unconscious of its complete incompatibility with their own or anybody else’s religion.

"On Angels"

The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

"The Retreat," l. 29.
Silex Scintillans (1655)

Source: Flipped

Introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France

Preface, p. xiv
Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Of The Social Sciences (2001)

Source: 1970s, "Three Types of Effectiveness Studies," 1977, p. 97