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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#breakdown #concealing #crisis #effect #moral

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#heart #improvement #mass #merchandising #product

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#consumerism #developments #eroded #family #life

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contemporary #important #important matters #indicated #intellectual

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#believe #between #conflict #family #feminism

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#events #images #news #propaganda #reporting

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl? ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#burned #doing #ever #get #girl

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#i #i love #keep #longer #love

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#failure #misused #our #pressure #start