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Lewis H. Lapham has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.
— Theodor Adorno
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
— William Hazlitt
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There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.
— Anatole France
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence…
— George D. Prentice
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards…
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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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
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
— Sivananda
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The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence,…
— H.G. Wells
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A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned beef, pickles, frankfurters, the…
— Herb Gardner
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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