Quotes by Christopher Lasch

“Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more ...”

“Mans collective mastery of nature even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it c...”

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

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

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

“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”

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

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

“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

“Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejectio...”

“I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.”

“Man’s collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when i...”