Lewis H. Lapham Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Children, Pain, War

• As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Educational, Book

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.121, Penguin

• Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Forever, News

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

• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Thinking, Chance

• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  War, Lying, Believe

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