Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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.

I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

Always convert your time into wisdom

Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

In the end, we know God as unknown.