If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place? — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one.… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share
