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

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.