#2,948

The problem of increasing inflation could be solved, if the modern mentality did not put up insurmountable resistance against any attempt to restrain human greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,914

The peddlers of cultural objects would not be annoying if they did not sell them with the rhetoric of an apostle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,888

The sinister uniformity that threatens us will not be imposed by a doctrine, but by a uniform economic and social conditioning.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,845

The economic cause produces “something,” but only the historical juncture decides “what.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,680

Economic claims, hostility between social classes, religious differences, tend to be mere pretexts for an instinctive appetite for conflict.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,639

The atomization of society derives from the modern division of labor: where nobody knows specifically for whom he works, nor who specifically works for him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,557

A non-economic problem does not appear worthy, in our time, of the attention of a serious citizen.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,463

The “ownership mentality,” so sharply censured by modern man, has transformed into a usufruct mentality that avidly exploits persons, works, things, without reserve, without pity, without shame.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

#2,426

It turns out it is impossible to convince a businessman that a profitable activity can be immoral.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,409

The evolution of works of art into objects of art and of objects of art into investments or into articles for consumption is a modern phenomenon.
A process that does not evidence a diffusion of the aesthetic, but rather the culmination of contemporary economism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,297

The economic inflation at the end of this century is a moral phenomenon.
The result, and at the same time the punishment, of egalitarian greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,264

When the motive for a decision is not economic, modern man is bewildered and frightened.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 367

#2,185

The abundance of translations has taken away from translation its function as a selective gesture.
Translation used to be posterity’s advance; today it is the publisher’s business.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

#2,180

Modern man’s life oscillates between two poles: business and sex.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354

#2,067

What the economist calls the “inflation of costs” is an outbreak of greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 335

#1,990

The modern mentality is ignorant of the fact that on the meta-economic level of the economy demand increases with supply, that hunger there does not increase with lack but with abundance, that appetite is irritated there by growing satiety.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 324

#1,986

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 323

#1,878

The economic interpretation of history is faulty, as long as economics limits itself to being the infrastructure of human existence.
It turns out to be relevant, however, when economics, by turning itself into the doctrinaire program for the transformation of the world, becomes a superstructure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,834

Economists err without fail because they imagine that extrapolation allows for prediction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,642

Socialism is the commercial name of state capitalism on the electoral market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275