Quote by Christopher Lasch
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. – Christopher Lasch

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. – Christopher Lasch

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? – James Hillman

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How many of you have broken no laws this month? Thats the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee – with physics and mathematics, not with laws – that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. – John Gilmore

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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. – Jacob Bronowski

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Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we dont know the cause. – Marilyn vos Savant

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