Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. Christopher Lasch Read Quote
