It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

The real news is bad news.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.