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

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

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

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

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.