Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

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

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

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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