Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.