You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.