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

Other quotes by Christopher Lasch

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. – Christopher Lasch

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Nature
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch

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Politics
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. – Christopher Lasch

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Marriage
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Society
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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Society

Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. – John Ralston Saul

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Society

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Society

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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Society

Random Quotes

Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose. – R. H. Blyth

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Choice

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. – Liz Armbruster, on rbrault.blogspot.com

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Wise Words

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses. – Marilyn vos Savant

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Success

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. – Jos

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Ordinary