“The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life…is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.”

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Conclusion, The Challenges of the Network Society, p. 282

Source: The Magus

1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, and dark and difficult moments. But if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power can transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows, we will be able to change all of these conditions. And so I plead with you this afternoon as we go ahead: remain committed to nonviolence. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.

Cassandra (1860)
Context: At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? We go somewhere where we are not wanted and where we don't want to go. What else is conventional life? Passivity when we want to be active. So many hours spent every day in passively doing what conventional life tells us, when we would so gladly be at work.
And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?

Source: The New Party - (1961), Chapter 7, Program, p. 81

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 9, The Common Good, p. 167.

Interview with the Associated Press, 2003-04-07
Excerpt from Santorum interview
USA Today
2003-04-23
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23-santorum-excerpt_x.htm
2011-09-01

1st Public Talk, Berkeley, California (3 February 1969)
1960s

World Theater Day Message, Geneva, Switzerland (2009)