Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

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.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

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