People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.