Christopher Lasch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”

“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”

“The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”

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

“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”

“The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.”

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

“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.”

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