We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.
Christopher LaschThe left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Christopher Lasch[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chestertonโs observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
Christopher LaschThe same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
Christopher Lasch