Christopher Lasch Quotes
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- The left has lost the common touch.
- We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
- 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…
- Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger…
- Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
- Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
- 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…
- The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
- Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
- It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of…
- Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
- The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
- The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they…
- Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
- The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
- The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
- Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
- In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
- A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use…