“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success
“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.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
Politics“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“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“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 left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.”
Family“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“Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.”
Smile“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
Family“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 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“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 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 model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
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“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family