Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

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

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.

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.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.