Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
Mass
Ownership
Society
Consumption
Addiction
Round
Organized
Rounds
Model
Models
More quotes by Christopher Lasch
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
Christopher Lasch
The left has lost the common touch.
Christopher Lasch
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
Christopher Lasch
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Christopher Lasch
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Christopher Lasch
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Christopher Lasch
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Christopher Lasch
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Christopher Lasch
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
Christopher Lasch
