In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

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.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.