1. “The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
2. “Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.”
3. “Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
4. “Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.”
5. “The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.”
6. “We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”
7. “The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.”
8. “The family is a haven in a heartless world.”
9. “The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”
10. “Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
11. “The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.”
12. “News represents another form of advertising, notliberal propaganda.”
13. “We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
14. “Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for root.”
15. “Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
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