There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills an...d silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the ...enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates--the inhabitants of marketing zones in the con...sumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest pla...ce on earth.... I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's... hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay.... As far as I'm concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down--and I will be satisfied, too.... The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, ...or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, ...all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose--some for cash and some for "political influence." We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice.... We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. "Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »