Quote by Christopher Lasch
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

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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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. – Christopher Lasch

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Politics
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One of the most destructive things thats happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse. – Alexander McCall Smith

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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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Society

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. – Herb Caen

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Society

The runway symbolizes something in society thats very intimidating to women. – Tyra Banks

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Society

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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. – Pete Dye

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. – Margaret Mead

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