Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.

People are priceless. A chance meeting with a loving human being was worth more than any amount of money in the world. I felt rich.

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

The only dynasty I like is the Duck Dynasty.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it