Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.
Christopher Lasch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
Roots
Except
Everything
Need
Needs
More quotes by Christopher Lasch
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
Christopher Lasch
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Christopher Lasch
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
Christopher Lasch
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.
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
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
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
Christopher Lasch
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Christopher Lasch
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.
Christopher Lasch
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher Lasch
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Christopher Lasch
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Christopher Lasch