Quotes by : Lewis H. Lapham

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football....

War is easier than peace. The government elects to punish an enemy it perceives as weak because it is....

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from....

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather....

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between....