The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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 like a girl with a substantial bottom, ' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Creativity healed me. I don't know that I could think of any word that I get more inspired by than the word healing.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.