“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age
“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.”
FamilyAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
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“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“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“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“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“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“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
Politics“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 family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
Marriage“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.”
Society“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“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
Society