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Sense Quotes by Christopher Lasch
- The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
- Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
- The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
- Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
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