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Lewis H. Lapham quotes

American Editor January 8, 1935

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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. Lewis H. Lapham
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralising as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god . . . It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put. Lewis H. Lapham
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self... Lewis H. Lapham
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. Lewis H. Lapham
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must..."
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they..."
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon..."
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect..."
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? Lewis H. Lapham
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. Lewis H. Lapham
Lewis H. Lapham quote: "The supply of government exceeds demand."
The supply of government exceeds demand. Lewis H. Lapham

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