Lewis H. Lapham Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• 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.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Men, Nbc

• Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Freedom, Pride

• Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Childhood, Agents

• [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Ignorance, Rivers

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