Christopher Lasch Quotes

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• The family is a haven in a heartless world.
• The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
• Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions…
• I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
• We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him…
• Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
• George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described…
• The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
• Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
• The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
• 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…
• Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
• It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
• The work of art is a scream of freedom.
• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to…
• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the…
• In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
• Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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