"The application of planned obsolescence to thought itself has the same merit as its application to consumer goods; th…"

"The free market in ideas has never been free, but always a market. To undo this necessitates not commissars and censo…"

"Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belo…"

"In the name of a new theory past theory is declared honorable but feeble; one can lay aside Freud and Marx—or appreci…"

"The general loss of memory is not to be explained solely psychologically; it is not simply childhood amnesia. Rather …"

"Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rules unchallenged; to be transcended it must first be remembered."

"The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common se…"

"The sundering of a scientific from a poetic truth is the primal mark of the administrative mind."

"In accepting the bourgeois form of reason as Reason itself, Roszak does his bit to perpetuate its reign."

"Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inab…"