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New Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
- In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use…
- 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.
- The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a…
- Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
- Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
- Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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