If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved