As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been erod...ed by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the worl...d, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for th...e above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics;... I speak of the infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crown...ed with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »