The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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.

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.

Life is a heroic faith.

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

To believe all you have to do is look at the sky.

If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter

I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

You get nothing but the truth from me.