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

After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

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

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

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.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

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