Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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

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

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.