Top 59 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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.

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

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

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

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.

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