Christopher Lasch Quotations

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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.

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

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

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

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

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

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

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.