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

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

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

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

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

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.