The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

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.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.