“ Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz… ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives. ”
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“ To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell… ”
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