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The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Christopher Lasch

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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
Work
Scream
Freedom
Art

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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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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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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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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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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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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.
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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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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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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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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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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