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Quotation by Lewis H. Lapham
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"Citizen Goetz" Harper's (New York, March 1985)"Democracy in America?" Harper's (New York, Nov. 1990)Money and Class in America (1988)"Moral Dandyism" Harper's (New York, July 1985)"Notebook: Brave New World" Harper's (New York, March 1991)Related Subjects
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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935), U.S. essayist, editor. Money and Class in America, ch. 4 (1988).
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