Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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

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