Quotes by Lapham, Lewis H.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without >>

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of consc >>

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. U >>

Quotations about Consensus

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or ju >>

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't b >>

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, pr >>

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.

Lapham, Lewis H.