Quote by Christopher Lasch
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it c

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. – Christopher Lasch

Other quotes by Christopher Lasch

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch

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Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Politics

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. – Bill Frist

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Politics

Politics is not bean bags. Its serious, tough stuff. – Colin Powell

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Politics

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results. – LL Cool J

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Politics

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Smart power is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in. – Hillary Clinton

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power

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of ones own view of the nature of ones relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. – Paul Watzlawick

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communication

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writers role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. – J. G. Ballard

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Reality

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. – Gerald R. Ford

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Government