A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.