The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

The left has lost the common touch.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.