| Jost Andreas - 2004 - 441 pagina’s
...Bestrebens bedient, die orientalischen Despotien und selbst die künftigen Sozialismen erst recht). There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. SAMUEL JOHNSON in: ftoswell: Ufe ofS.J., Part V (Kaum ein Verfahren ist geeigneter, sich eines Manns... | |
| Richard P. Gildrie - 1994 - 264 pagina’s
...Acquisitiveness could discipline lust, violence, idleness, or rebelliousness. As Samuel Johnson summarized, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." John Evelyn rhapsodized a century earlier that "the miracles of commerce taught us Religion, instructed... | |
| Norman Podhoretz - 2004 - 498 pagina’s
...the pursuit of money. Not that he had anything against this. Though he did not quote Dr. Johnson — "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" — his own attitude was much the same. But the pursuit of money did not, in his view, give as much... | |
| Michael Walzer - 2006 - 210 pagina’s
...old connotations of unrestrainable enthusiasm, intensity, and violence. Samuel Johnson's claim that "there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" may, as Hirschman says, underestimate the social consequences of capitalism," but it perfectly captures... | |
| Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 637 pagina’s
...railcar-making machinery.22 At least one can in a modern capitalist society. THE RICH Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him; "There...this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear'' — Johnson, Boswell's Life There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war. . . . Nature seems to authorize... | |
| Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot - 2006 - 408 pagina’s
...is characterized by a desire as innocent as any dignity. "Go for Profit. Samuel Johnson once said: 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money'" (McCormack 1984, 202). This capacity is inherent in everyone: "Most people, I believe, are born salesmen"... | |
| Deborah Valenze - 2006 - 251 pagina’s
...enabled to defend impulses and actions formerly condemned as reprehensible. Samuel Johnson's witticism, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," spoke to the general acceptance of a universe of worldly pursuits and the need to get on with making... | |
| Mark Skousen - 2007 - 280 pagina’s
...was ll. Montesquieu's propitious image of capitalism reflects the famous line by Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" (Boswell l933, I, 657). It was John Maynard Keynes who wrote, "It is better that a man should tyrannize... | |
| Robert A. Degen - 2011 - 217 pagina’s
...nature. The pursuit of material gain came to be seen as innocuous. In the words of Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Economic affairs were viewed as mundane, not important enough to affect the human condition in a major... | |
| Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 pagina’s
...age while condemning the degeneracy that new wealth entailed. "There are few ways," wrote Johnson, "in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."108 In his travels through western Scotland with Boswell, he was sensitive to how much the modern... | |
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