Advertising Quote by Christopher Lasch

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand…

— Christopher Lasch

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

— Christopher Lasch

“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps…

— Christopher Lasch

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

— Christopher Lasch

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive…

— Christopher Lasch

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of…

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

— Christopher Lasch

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

— Christopher Lasch

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…

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Christopher Lasch

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

— Christopher Lasch