“People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat, which are only expressions of the great modern divinity, the Moloch of fact.” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartStatesMomentsFactsRaceAcceptingModernExpressionJudgingDependsWorshipDollarsProductionsDivinityProletariat Author:Jacques Ellul
“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.” KnowsKidsTodayValuesAsksFiveModernDollarsModern Life Author:Robert Orben
“The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.” Has BeensIdeasModernPolicyDollarsAdministrationBulletsDiplomacyIntercourse Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress