23 Quotations by Lewis H. Lapham
- 1. A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to th ...

- 2. A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the ...

- 3. Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, d ...

- 4. Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the ...

- 5. He was as uncommunicative as a vending machine.

- 6. I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a galle ...

- 7. It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come t ...

- 8. Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can emp ...

- 9. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his own ...

- 10. Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leade ...

- 11. Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quit ...

- 12. Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clo ...

- 13. Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clo ...

- 14. Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow b ...

- 15. The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to ...

- 16. The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable ...

- 17. The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than ...

- 18. The supply of government exceeds demand.

- 19. To the United States, the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregna ...

- 20. Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money ...

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