Christopher Lasch Quotes
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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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…
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I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
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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…
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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
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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…
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
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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…
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
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Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
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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…
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the…
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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.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
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