I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

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

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

The left has lost the common touch.

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.