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

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

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

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

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

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