Top 59 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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.

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

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

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

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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

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