Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

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

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

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

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

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.