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Christopher Lasch Inspirational Quotes (46)

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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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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.
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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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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.
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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
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[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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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.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
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