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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch
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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
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Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
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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 prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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The left has lost the common touch.
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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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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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