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Lewis H. Lapham

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Also known as Lewis Henry Lapham, Lewis Lapham, Lewis Henry Lapham II

American journalist (1935-2024)

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Born
January 8, 1935
Died
2024
Works
45

Top works

  • High technology & human freedom
  • Lapham Omnibus
  • Lapham's Quarterly
  • The American ruling class
  • Ming liu

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Quotes

  • Money ennobles rich people, and corrupts poor people. Money in sufficient quantity entitles its possessor to the reverence and respect owed to the statue of George Washington. Money is the sacred elephant, always in the room, never to be addressed or seen, but whose will is done on earth as it is in Heaven.
  • It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
  • Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
  • Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.
  • Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
  • By the word "liberty" they meant liberty for property, not liberty for persons.

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