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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.


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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.



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



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





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