"In terms of future renewal, much of it will depend on a commitment to individualism.

"The problem is that the group usually offers conformity, not genuine community."

"As in the early Middle Ages, we see the dissolution of interiority, and the loss or denigration of individual judgment and achievement."

"The drift in the U.S. today is toward the submergence of the self into the Mass Mind, a trend that is powerfully encouraged by corporate culture and the new technology."