"Everyone who achieves strives for totality, and the value of his achievement lies in that totality—that is, in the fa…"

"The disease of the modern character is specialization. Looked at from the standpoint of the social system, the aim of…"

"The first, and best known, hazard of the specialist system is that it produces specialists—people who are elaborately…"

"The market system, as it gets more specialized, will give more and more to the top people. If we were back in 1800 an…"

"This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame …"

"Nowadays, the phenomenon (of division of labor) has developed so generally it is obvious to all. We need have no furt…"

"[O]ur failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society ope…"

"It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman…"

"We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequen…"

"Thus we are brought to the third circle of this hell, which, perhaps, will some day find its Dante. In this third soc…"