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.

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.

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.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

When I step into the light My arms are open wide When I step into the light My eyes searching wildly

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

This is about unenforceable registration of weapons that violates the rights of people to own firearms.

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.