Adam Davis

“Not only the media of mass communication, one of the most important instruments by which the managerial elite disciplines and control the mass population, but also all other mass organizations that disseminate, restrict, or invent information, ideas and values advertising, publishing, journalism, film and broadcasting, entertainment, religion, education, and institutions for research and development. Indeed, the mass organizations of culture and communication, which generally lack the coercive disciplines of the mass corporation and the mass state, are able to provide disciplines and control for the mass population primarily through their use of the devices and techniques of mass communication. All the mass cultural organizations, then, function as part of the media of mass communication, and they constitute a necessary element in the power base of the managerial elite.”
― Samuel T. Francis, Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America

“America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology.”
― Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism

“The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Love, by its very nature, is not secure; we keep wanting to make it so.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time (Norton Professional Books