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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
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Freedom
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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[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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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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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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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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