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Lewis Lapham: Acquires Meaning
on Monday, July 11, 2022Lewis Lapham Money Quote saying Money acquires it’s meaning from the uses to which it is put – for good or ill. Lewis Lapham said:
“Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put” — Lewis Lapham
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Lewis Lapham: Incarnation of God
on Sunday, July 10, 2022Lewis Lapham Money Quote saying that money is powerful force, like god incarnate. Lewis Lapham said:
“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god” — Lewis Lapham
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Lewis Lapham: Financing Civilization
on Wednesday, September 7, 2011Lewis H. Lapham Money Quotation saying our infrastructure requires understanding the financing of the heart and the core of our society. Lewis H. Lapham said:
“Money ranks as one of the primary materials with which mankind builds the architecture of civilization” — Lewis H Lapham
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Lewis Lapham: Poor Rich People
on Tuesday, June 21, 2011Lewis H. Lapham Money Quotation saying believing you are rich doesn’t necessarily make it so – but being wealthy and feeling deprived makes it pointless. Lewis H. Lapham said:
“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 themselves so poor” — Lewis H. Lapham
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