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

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

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.