Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

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