Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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