Top 59 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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