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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.


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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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.

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.

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.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.



Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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





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There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.



My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.

My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.



How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

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No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

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Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

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