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The left has lost the common touch.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.