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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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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Little
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Life
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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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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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The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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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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Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
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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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