Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
replaced character building with permissiveness, the cure of souls with the cure of the psyche, blind justice with therapeutic justice, philosophy with social science, personal authority with an equally irrational authority of professional experts. It has tempered competition with antagonistic cooperation . . . It has surrounded people with 'symbolically mediated information' and has substituted images of reality for reality itself. Without intending to, it has created new forms of illiteracy. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clichT that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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