The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.