Christopher Lasch

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all. ”

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. ”

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. ”

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ”

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. ”

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ”

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

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

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. ”