American - Historian | June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher Lasch
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Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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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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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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