Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Lewis H. Lapham:
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
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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
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
~Lewis H. Lapham
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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
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
~Lewis H. Lapham
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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
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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
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