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Mass Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the…
- The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
- It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
- Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
- The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
More Mass Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic… — James Bovard
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. — Tallulah Bankhead