The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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 no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was.

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?

Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.