Carolina QuotesThe disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 32
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 32
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“The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied …” Richard M. Weaver. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-606F963645. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/606f963645
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