To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

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

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

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

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.