Culture Quote by Lewis H. Lapham

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more…

— Lewis H. Lapham

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is…

— Lewis H. Lapham

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

— Lewis H. Lapham

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man…

— Lewis H. Lapham

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough…

— Lewis H. Lapham

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors…

— Lewis H. Lapham

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

— Lewis H. Lapham

To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People…

— Lewis H. Lapham