We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it… — 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
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard. — 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
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 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 its sponsors… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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