Making weapons is what we know how to do best, the supreme achievement of late-twentieth-century American civilization. To this blessed work we assign our finest intellect and the largest share of our treasure, and in the magnificence of an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile we find our moral and aesthetic equivalent of the Sistine ceiling and Chartres Cathedral. —Lewis Lapham More about this quote Tags: weapons morality achievement America civilization missiles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email