"Of what does politics consist except the making……" — Lewis H. Lapham
"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"
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39 Quotes by Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham has 39 quotes on this site.
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars,…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a…
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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…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident;…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
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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…
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes…
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