Anything goes Quote by Lewis H. Lapham

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”

Lewis H. Lapham

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