119 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

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