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