Christopher Lasch Quotes

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-Christopher Lasch in Success quotes.

"The great power of the project is that it's absolutely irrational. And that disturbs, angers the sound human perception of a capitalist society. That is also a part of the project, this is the idea of the project, to put in doubt all the values."
-Christopher Lasch

"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."
-Christopher Lasch

"You need to spend time walking, ... You have cold air, sunny day, rainy day, even snow. Spend time experiencing the project."
-Christopher Lasch

"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."
-Christopher Lasch

"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."
-Christopher Lasch

"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
-Christopher Lasch

"Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions."
-Christopher Lasch

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
-Christopher Lasch

"We chose the Arkansas River because it is so habitable there is so much human activity. Also, there is no screen of trees to block the view of the river and there are high banks."
-Christopher Lasch

"Now the fabric panel moves in all the directions very whimsically. [It] very sensually reflects the serpent-like character of the walkway system."
-Christopher Lasch

"There will be many interruptions (in the fabric panels) for boulders, rock formations, vegetation, ... The fabric panels' width will be the same width as the water."
-Christopher Lasch

"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."
-Christopher Lasch

"Everyone is gone. They are safe. For that, we are thankful."
-Christopher Lasch

"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."
-Christopher Lasch

"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
-Christopher Lasch