“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.”
SuccessAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
Society“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“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 are arguing about.”
Family“A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
Society“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“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“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“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family“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“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
Smile“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
Business“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
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“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“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“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family