Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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.

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

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.