The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

I love all trees, but I am in love with pines.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.