"Under the rules of a society that cannot……" — Lewis H. Lapham
"Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible."
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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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More Cannot Distinguish Quotes
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime…
— Peter Singer
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that…
— Northrop Frye
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Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan…
— Dorothy Parker
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People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think…
— Brian Reynolds Myers
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The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful…
— Unknown Author
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that…
— Carl Sagan
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of…
— William Faulkner
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With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy?…
— Stephen Hawking
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