If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.