Christopher Lasch was a famous Historian from USA, who lived between June 1, 1932 and February 14, 1994. He/she became 61 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 48 quotes who is written / told by Christopher.
48 Famous quotes by Christopher Lasch
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life"
"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the 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"
"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"
"Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom"
"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure"
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters"
"Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger"
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success"
"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"
"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to 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"
"The left has lost the common touch"
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order"
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction"
"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"
"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types"
"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"
"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"
"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them"
"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"
"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment"
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction"
"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy"
"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all"
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product"
"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs"
"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business"
"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend"
"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change"
"The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system"
"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information"
"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising"
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image"
"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values"
"Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language"
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense"
"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda"
"Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes"
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage"
"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media"
"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech"
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection"
"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice"
"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine"
"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values"
"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"
"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions"
