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

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

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.