Christopher Lasch Quotes

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Christopher Lasch

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• Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Experience
  • Career
  • New York

• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Community
  • Financial

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Trust
  • Cool

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Up
  • World
  • Culture

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Kids

• The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I don't persuade to suicide.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Suicide
  • Persuade

• When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Society
  • Lost

• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Man
  • Daily
  • Iron

• All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

  

  Edith Stein
  • Experience
  • Present
  • More

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Daily

• Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)

  

  Dave Sim
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Express

• I voted proudly for the first time for John Fitzgerald Kennedy for president of the United States.

  

  Danny K. Davis
  • Time

• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Daily