Lewis H. Lapham Quotes About Innocence

Quotes about: Innocence

• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, United States

• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Innocence, Banquets, Endure

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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