A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.