Quotes by Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Attitude

Believe

Tolerance

A child’s appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Children

Desire

Lying

A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Important

Past

Suggestions

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Religious

Separation

Spiritual

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It ‘educates’ the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

Advertising

New Experiences

Way

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Coercion

Justice

Perfect

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

Age

Birthday

Character

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Embedded

Perception

Shapes

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.

Culture

Narcissist

World

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Drug

Needs

Want

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Abortion

Addiction

Advertising

Age

Alternatives

Animal

Art

Art Is

Attitude

Believe

Birthday

Blue

Bourgeoisie

Buttons

Character

Children

Citizens

Class

Coercion

Collapse

Comfort

Common

Consumerism

Conviction

Culture

Danger

Debate

Defense

Definitions

Demand

Denial

Desire

Development

Discrepancies Between

Doom

Drug

Embedded

Emotional

Encouragement

Fate

Feelings

Ghetto

Grace

Historical

Horror

Hygiene

Important

Improvement

Independent

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Quotes by Christopher Lasch

Christopher Lasch

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

A child’s appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

A society that has made ‘nostalgia’ a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It ‘educates’ the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

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

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

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.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

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