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.

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

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

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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