Quotes by Lasch, Christopher

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public >>

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better und >>

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it ma >>

Quotations about Men and Women

The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the sour >>

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled >>

Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferre >>

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. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the cliché that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

Lasch, Christopher