Danh ngôn của Christopher Lasch (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.