"The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction."
― Christopher Lasch
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Society
― Christopher Lasch
More From Christopher Lasch
- "The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
- "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."
- "Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes."
More In Society
- "The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."― Mark Twain
- "I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character – not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don’t think the political process could actually handle that."― J. C. Watts
- "It’s not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe."― Jessica Simpson