It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

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.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

What's broken can always be fixed What's fixed will always be broken

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

There's no point whining about missed opportunities.

I think it's what animates our president-elect [Donald Trump] more than anything else, is a belief in the boundless potential of every American to live the American dream.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?