119 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

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

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

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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

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

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.

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

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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