We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.