Lewis H. Lapham

Quotes

• “I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagine...”
• “War is easier than peace. The government elects to punish an enemy it perceives as weak because it is easier to send an ...”
• “Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or in...”
• “A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or i...”
• “As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educat...”
• “The supply of government exceeds the demand.”