Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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

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

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.