Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears