... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.