More - Christopher Lasch Quotes

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Christopher Lasch

 Age And Aging American Historian

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Christopher Lasch

 American Historian Debate

…moral paralysis of those who value 'openness' above all (democracy is more than) openness and toleration... In the absence of common standards... tolerance becomes indifference.

Christopher Lasch

 

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

 American Historian

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

 American Historian Appearance

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

 Culture

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Christopher Lasch

 American Historian Debate

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.

Christopher Lasch

 Blacks

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Christopher Lasch

 American Historian

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

Christopher Lasch

 Modern And Modernism