Christopher Lasch quotes
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.