Christopher Lasch Quotes

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

Success, Nothing, Appearance

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

Smile, Denial, Realistic

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
Christopher Lasch

Personal, Danger, Remains

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch

Same, Citizen, Historical

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch

Left, Master, Activism

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

Language, Left, Common

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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Business, Makes, Order

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

Age, Character, Express

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

Sure, Trouble, Speech

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.
Christopher Lasch

God, Society, Culture

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

Seen, Understood, Debate

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
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Away, Left, Taking

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

Knowledge, Reality, Copy

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

Family, Conviction, Defense

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

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.
Christopher Lasch

Live, Longer, Nuclear

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

Family, Women, Left

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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Cannot, Force, Economics

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
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Another, Liberal, News

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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Crisis, Moral, Social

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Important, Sense

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch

Heart, Mass, Consumer

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Christopher Lasch

Cannot, Revival, Dismissed

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Addiction, Belief, Media

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Last, Three

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1, 1932

Died: February 14, 1994

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