The work of art is a scream of freedom.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

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.