“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age
“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
WisdomAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“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“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
Family“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”
Politics“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“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“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“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“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
Business“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
Marriage“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 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 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“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“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change