Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. 
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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
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
- Lewis H. Lapham