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

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue 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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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes. – Al Roker

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Society

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Society

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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Society

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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. – George Steiner

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. – Oscar Wilde

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Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. – Ovid

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I feel like writing a book theres always a version in your head thats an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. – Karen Thompson Walker

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