Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

The principal cause of war is war itself.