Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
ChristopherLaschwas an American historian, moralist, and social critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 June 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher Lasch quotes about
jobs blue class
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
ghetto order class
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
drug needs want
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
art scream art-is
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
family people modern
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 the time.
too-much demand littles
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.
order moral birth
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
perfect justice coercion
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
family heartless world
The family is a haven in a heartless world.
inspirational success congratulations
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
culture gift narcissist
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.