Christopher Lasch Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.”

“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”

“The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.”

“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.”

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

“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”

“George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.”

“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.”

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

“Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.”