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)
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