Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. – 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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. – 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
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
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841