Quotes by : Christopher Lasch

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is....

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

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make....

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.....

Man’s collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is....

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate....

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion....

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the....

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained....

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as....