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 the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

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

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.