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Quotes from Money And Class In America — Lewis H. Lapham

1935–2024 United States

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Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

Money And Class In America (1989)

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.

Money And Class In America (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lewis H. Lapham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.