Quotes by

Christopher Lasch

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. – Christopher Lasch

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. – Christopher Lasch

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. – Christopher Lasch

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. – Christopher Lasch

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. – Christopher Lasch

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

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. – Christopher Lasch

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. – Christopher Lasch

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. – Christopher Lasch

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. – Christopher Lasch

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. – Christopher Lasch

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch