“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 all the time.”
Family
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
FamilyAll Quotes by 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 of family life.”
Family“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”
Politics“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.”
Society“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
Family“Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
Knowledge“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
Family“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
Nature“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 own purposes.”
Family“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
Experience“The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
Family“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
Business“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
Family“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”
Hope