Christopher Lasch Quotes

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Christopher Lasch

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Believe
  • Security
  • Legal

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Children
  • Society
  • Smiling

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Snow
  • Forest
  • Tourism

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Find
  • Place

• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

  

  Barry White
  • Me
  • Another
  • Turned

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing
  • Hollywood
  • Cinema

• Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Earth
  • City
  • Saying

• I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Woman
  • Wants
  • Unfortunately

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, 'It ain't country anymore,' but I don't get into that whole deal.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• If you want to be given everything, give everything up.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Give

• Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

  

  Austin Kleon
  • Learn
  • Born
  • Copying

• Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

  

  Christopher Lasch