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

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.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.