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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."

"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

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

"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."

"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."

"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics."
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