Famous Quotes

"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."

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."