Christopher Lasch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.”

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

“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.”

“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”

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