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Christopher Lasch Quotes: In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
         

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.


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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.



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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.



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The family is a haven in a heartless world.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.



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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.



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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.



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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.



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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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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.



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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.





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The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.



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