Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

What we know is far less important than what we use.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.