Christopher Lasch Quotes and its meanings

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

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.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

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.

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.

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.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

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

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.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.