Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?