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Lewis H. Lapham Quotes: At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
         

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.


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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.



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Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.



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The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.



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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.



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America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.



Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

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