Best Quotes by Christopher Lasch (Top 10)
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The family is a haven in a heartless world.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
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We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
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Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
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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.
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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