The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.