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.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

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

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.