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

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

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

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

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

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