Christopher Lasch quotes

Home A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

- Home
- Privacy Policy
- Quotes By Topic
- Quotes By Type
- Link to Us
- Get random quotes
- Quotes for myspace
- Quotes for xanga
- Contact Us

- Dumb.com
- Funny Jokes
- Bored.com
- Web Host Reviews
- Diet Reviews

Quotes by topic

Age
Anger
Art
Business
Change
Computers
Death
Dreams
Education
Equality
Experience
Faith
Forgiveness
Friendship
Funny
Government
History
Humor
Imagination
Intelligence
Life
Love
Marriage
Movies
Music
Nature
Patriotism
Peace
Poetry
Politics
Religion
Science
Society
Sports
Success
Technology
Time
War
Wisdom
Work

Random Quote"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
Soren Kierkegaard

Christopher Lasch Quotes

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.
Christopher Lasch

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

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

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch

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

Type:
Historian
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:

Nationality:
American