Christopher Lasch Quotes

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

Society, Addiction, Values

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

Life, Family, Loyalty

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

Family, Time, Keep

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

Family, Society, Cannot

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

Lie, Child, Desire

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Christopher Lasch

Social, Values, Side

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

Today, Sense, Against

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

Family, Life, Talk

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

Religion, Politics, Spiritual

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Christopher Lasch

Job, Public, Encourage

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
Christopher Lasch

Daily, Cannot, Whole

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch

Society, Addiction, Model

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

Values, Capitalism, Modern

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

Experience, Society, Daily

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

Family, Single, Law

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

Life, Family, Same

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

Politics, Hope, Political

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

Love, Politics, Justice

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

Nature, Sense, Between

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
Christopher Lasch

Important, Silence, Matters

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Christopher Lasch

Same, Place, Child

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Growing, Popular

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

Life, Society, Today

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
Christopher Lasch

Reality, Media, Logic

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

Art, Mirror, Image

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1, 1932

Died: February 14, 1994

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