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.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

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

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

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

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

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.