Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. – Christopher Lasch
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. – Christopher Lasch
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. – Christopher Lasch