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

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.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.