Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Christopher LaschEvery age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher LaschIt 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.
Christopher Lasch