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Christopher Lasch
(American Historian)

Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 15
Times favorited:: 1

Christopher Lasch was a well-known American historian, moralist, and social critic.

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

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“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.”

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“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.”

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