Lewis Lapham

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    Hunger shall make thy modest zone
    And cheat fond death of all but bone—
    —Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    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)