KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Christopher Lasch Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Christopher Lasch

Showing 51-59 of 59 Quotes by Christopher Lasch

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Addiction Consumption Mass Model Organized Ownership Round Society

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Appeals Appetite Becomes Child Demand Familiar Jaded Makes New New One News Place Same Soon Tire Toy

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Insist Left Mix Politics Proper Religion Reply Response Right Right Wing Stock Wing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Agree Arguing Cannot Deeply Definition Divides Even Family Institution Now Opposing Our Question Sides Society

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Commodities Events Images News Propaganda Reporting Understood

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Activism Left Master Sustained Techniques Will

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: Addict Change Now Revolutionaries

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

~Christopher Lasch

Topics: About Appropriate Cried Family Family Values Feeling Finally Grasped Liberals Own Popular Purposes Rhetoric Strength Symbolism Values

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Collective Culture Gift God Narcissist Society World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 1st, 1932

Died: February 14th, 1994

Links

Find Christopher Lasch on Amazon

Related Authors

Henry Adams
James Truslow Adams
Charles A. Beard
Daniel J. Boorstin
Will Durant
Barbara Tuchman
Carter G. Woodson
Howard Zinn

Popular Authors

Robert Frost Alfred Hitchcock Thomas Jefferson James Madison Willie Nelson Sophocles Margaret Thatcher Swami Vivekananda

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1819 - George Eliot

1921 - Rodney Dangerfield

1943 - Billie Jean King

1744 - Abigail Adams

1856 - Heber J. Grant

1857 - George Gissing

1869 - Andre Gide

1890 - Charles De Gaulle

1899 - Hoagy Carmichael

1912 - Doris Duke

Birthdays on November 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Architecture Dad Inspirational Intelligence Knowledge Mom Technology Travel