Quotes by Lasch, Christopher

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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically >>

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility b >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a co >>

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided >>

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to >>

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.

Lasch, Christopher