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

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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.

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

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