Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

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

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

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.