#mer

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. ↗

— Alexander Turney Stewart

#back #cheat #come #customer #even

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#best #constitutional #features #futile #i

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#calculation #compensation #emotional #fun #like

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american culture #culture #hybrid #hybrids #itself

Phish has never had anything to do with any trends at all in America. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#any #anything #had #never #phish

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

There are no second acts in American lives. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american #american lives #lives #second