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

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

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