Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.