Christopher Lasch

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion - to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity.”

“The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety.”

“The family is a haven in a heartless world.”

“Hope asserts that the finality of the grave is an illusion, but it does so without denying the reality of the grave.”

“When a society becomes decadent, it is the family that pays the price.”

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

“Liberalism, on the other hand, has degenerated into a politics of resentment.”

“The happy man is not the man who has no cares, but the man who has learned to live with them.”

“The culture of consumption... has transformed the pursuit of happiness into a frantic search for the latest novelty.”

“A radical is not a man who has no roots. He is a man who has very deep roots.”

“Populism is the authentic voice of democracy.”

“The past is not a foreign country.”

“What elites call populism is the cry of the people for a voice in their own destiny.”

“The attempt to create a 'value-free' science has only succeeded in creating a science that is a slave to the values of the marketplace.”

“The modern world is a world of commodities, not of things.”