Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In …

- Lewis H. Lapham

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

- Lewis H. Lapham

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

- Lewis H. Lapham

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.

- Lewis H. Lapham

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 …

- Lewis H. Lapham

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it …

- Lewis H. Lapham

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselv…

- Lewis H. Lapham

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business…

- Lewis H. Lapham

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

- Lewis H. Lapham