Leadership does not depend on being right.

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

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

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.