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Christopher Lasch Quotes



Quotes by Christopher Lasch - (15 quotes)

Christopher Lasch - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

The family is a haven in a heartless world. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Change category:

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Children category:

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Culture category:

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Danger category:

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Ego category:

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)

Christopher Lasch - From the Environment category:

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Idealism category:

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

Christopher Lasch - From the Information category:

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

Christopher Lasch - From the Life category:

- The Culture of Narcissism...
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Modernism category:

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Politics category:

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right - it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Selling category:

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Success category:

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. (Christopher Lasch)

Christopher Lasch - From the Success category:

Success in our society has to be ratified by publicity. (Christopher Lasch)