Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times --the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie --seem attractive by comparison. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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
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
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. - 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
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. - 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
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 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
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. - 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
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
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
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. - 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
amoral paralysis of those who value 'openness' above all (democracy is more than) openness and toleration... In the absence of common standards... tolerance becomes indifference. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The left has lost the common touch. - Christopher Lasch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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