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.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

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

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

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.