Best Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
- Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at… Anti
- As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers… Adults
- Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. Construed
- Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. All
- From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --… Authors
- I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the… Achieved
- Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Any
- The leading cause of death is birth. Birth
- The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the… American
- The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. Advancing
- Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on… Alike
- Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. Character
- If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly… Badly
- What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or… Administration