Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.