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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumpt

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. – Christopher Lasch

Other quotes by Christopher Lasch

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. – Christopher Lasch

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smile
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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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Modern, Modernism
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Society
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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Society

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe were supposed to be monogamous when were not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is. – Rachel Hunter

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Society

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. – Ellen Frankfort

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Society

But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

Gold makes the ugly beautiful. – Moli

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Gold

Book lovers never go to bed alone. – Author unknown

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Books

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Category:
Food

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. – Thomas S. Monson

Category:
work