Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

- Christopher Lasch

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

- Christopher Lasch

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

- Christopher Lasch

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

- Christopher Lasch

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

- Christopher Lasch

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

- Christopher Lasch

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

- Christopher Lasch

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

- Christopher Lasch

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

- Christopher Lasch

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

- Christopher Lasch

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

- Christopher Lasch

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

- Christopher Lasch

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

- Christopher Lasch

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

- 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

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

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

- Christopher Lasch

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

- Christopher Lasch

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

- Christopher Lasch

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

- Christopher Lasch