The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

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.

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

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

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.

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

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.