Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

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.