Christopher Lasch Quotes

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Christopher Lasch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 1, 1932 - February 14, 1994

Topics

LoveJusticePoliticsPerfectBecome

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

Jim Crace

WorkGoodJobWritingLookingLucky

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

Anna Nicole Smith

LoveMoneyMeLove MeYouKnow

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Amanda de Cadenet

BrotherMeGenderStereotypesTaught

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

SufferWhoHeShallFearsSuffers

I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye... I'm sure those things stick with you.

Jason Robards

ChildrenGoodbyeBusyTryingYou

The thing they don't tell you about a Tough Mudder is that, for all the adrenaline pumping and barbed-wire-bicep-tattoo sporting, a lot of the day is fairly idyllic and contemplative. I hadn't spent so much time jogging through the woods in years - or ever.

Josh Gondelman

TimeDayToughWoodsYouTell

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

Josh Mandel

HistoryTimeGovernmentAmerican

So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.

Jonathan Kozol

FearMedicalI AmPeopleRestView

Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.

Dr. Dre

HustlerCallExtremeFactHeSean

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

Art Bell

TimeYouWrongMatterRightEffect

A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

Arturo O'Farrill

LoveCultureMistakeIdentityRoots

To do anything with someone like Bono or someone would be like, you know, a milestone, I think, as a musician.

Priyanka Chopra

ThinkSomeoneYouKnowAnything

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