Top 59 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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

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

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

The left has lost the common touch.

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.

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.

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

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.