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"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
"Gold may shine, but it has no true light."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible."
"People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless."
"Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character."
"The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you are exchanging your life just for some porridge, some little compensation in the form of salary."
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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."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"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."
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
"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."
"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."
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