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.
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
