There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible.

Few great men could pass personnel.

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.