Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.