Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection t...
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
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.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.