“ In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. Christopher Lasch
“ The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. Christopher Lasch
“ The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch
“ The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. Christopher Lasch
“ The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. Christopher Lasch
“ Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. Christopher Lasch
“ Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch
“ Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. Christopher Lasch
“ Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. Christopher Lasch
“ Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection t… Christopher Lasch
“ I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. Christopher Lasch
“ Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
“ Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction. Christopher Lasch
