Quotes by Christopher Lasch

About Christopher Lasch:

Christopher (Kit) Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic.
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Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Christopher Lasch

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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

Christopher Lasch

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

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

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The left has lost the common touch.

Christopher Lasch

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

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

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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 it coexists with centralizing forces that have d...

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

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

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

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

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Lasch
  • DescriptionAmerican historian
  • BornJune 1, 1932
  • DiedFebruary 14, 1994
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian; Social Critic; Writer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award