Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

- Midge Decter

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth…

- Midge Decter

We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European f…

- Midge Decter

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ec…

- Midge Decter

There comes a time to join the side you're on.

- Midge Decter

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and…

- Midge Decter

We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and provi…

- Midge Decter