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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.
Money And Class In America (1989)
I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
Money And Class In America (1989)
By the word "liberty" they meant liberty for property, not liberty for persons.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
Money And Class In America (1989)
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
Money And Class In America (1989)
Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.
Money And Class In America (1989)
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Surely they knew that the very idea of the future came in an American box - complete with instructions for assembling a Constitution, a MacDonald's hamburger franchise, a row of Marriot hotels and a First Amendment.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
Money And Class In America (1989)
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.
Money And Class In America (1989)
Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
Money And Class In America (1989)