Quotes by Lapham, Lewis H.

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new >>

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve a >>

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less fro >>

Quotations about Institutions

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, >>

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wea >>

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own diss >>

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

Lapham, Lewis H.