Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

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

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

The supply of government exceeds the demand.

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

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

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