In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

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.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

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.

In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture