Famous Quotes

"A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."

Christopher Lasch on Society

More quotes about Society

• "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

• "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Society

• "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

• "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

• "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Christopher Lasch

• "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."

• "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."

• "We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."

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

• "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."