Christopher Lasch

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. ”

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. ”

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. ”

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ”

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ”

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. ”

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

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ”

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. ”

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