“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”
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.”
FamilyAll Quotes by Christopher Lasch
“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 has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
Business“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 ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
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“In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.”
Experience“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
Nature“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
Marriage“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“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 last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.”
Change“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue 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“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“Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.”
Society“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family