Addiction Quote by Christopher Lasch Download Open image “The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.” — Christopher Lasch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Community Consumption Mass Models Organized Ownership
People can glum onto all sorts of things. And some might use this in that way instead of taking personal responsibility for their lives.… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness. It is… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Addiction is a crazy disease. It's a progressive disease when it's not dealt with; it don't care who it takes, and it takes it… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
“The successes (financial) represent addictive drives, whose negative impact in the world is tremendous. Who creates more suffering, somebody who sells an ounce of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fictitious power and supremacy, by standing out from the crowd through… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Addiction is physical, mental and spiritural disease that affects every area of our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image