Lewis H. Lapham: Quotes about the world

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“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198

World , Wealth

“Unlike every other other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Time Lines, p. 64
Waiting For The Barbarians (1997)

World

“The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181

World , Light

“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Money And Class In America (1989)
Source: Wordsmith.org, 2016.01.08

Money , World , Feeling , Affliction

“Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Preamble, p. 8
Money And Class In America (1989)

People , World , History

“Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.”

Lewis H. Lapham

Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 6, The Precarious Eden, p. 142

Men , People , Secret , World