In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.