Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.