"The American press is, and always has been,……" — Lewis H. Lapham
"The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy."
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Lewis H. Lapham
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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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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
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Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or…
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I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the…
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The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but…
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