One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.