Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

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.

Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.