Famous quotes by Historians

"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"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"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Make it new is the message, not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"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"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"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"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"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"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Honor wears different coats to different eyes"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

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