Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appeti…

- Christopher Lasch

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…

- Christopher Lasch

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, for…

- Christopher Lasch

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

- Christopher Lasch

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

- Christopher Lasch

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

- Christopher Lasch

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer r…

- Christopher Lasch

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

- Christopher Lasch

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

- Christopher Lasch