Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.

The household became the place where the consumption of wages takes place.

Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped, while those in which living has been transformed into a process of ordering from an all-encompassing store catalogue are called advanced.

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

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

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