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

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

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

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

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

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