Personal Disintegration Remains Always An Imminent Danger.

We Demand Too Much Of Life, Too Little Of Ourselves.

Progressive Rhetoric Has The Effect Of Concealing Social Crisis And Moral Breakdown By Presenting Them As The Birth Pangs Of A New Order.

The Last Three Decades Have Seen The Collapse Of The Family Wage System.

Because Politics Rests On An Irreducible Measure Of Coercion, It Can Never Become A Perfect Realm Of Perfect Love And Justice.

It Is A Tribute To The Peculiar Horror Of Contemporary Life That It Makes The Worst Features Of Earlier Times -- The Stupefaction Of The Masses, The Obsessed And Driven Lives Of The Bourgeoisie -- Seem Attractive By Comparison.