Die Bourgeoisie, wo sie zur Herrschaft gekommen, hat alle feudalen, patriarchalischen, idyllischen Verhältnisse zerstört. Sie hat die buntscheckigen Feudalbande, die den Menschen an seinen natürlichen Vorgesetzten knüpften, unbarmherzig zerrissen und kein anderes Band zwischen Mensch und Mensch übriggelassen als das nackte Interesse, als die gefühllose "bare Zahlung".
Section 1, paragraph 14, lines 1-5.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
“Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Source: 1840s, Chartism (1840), Ch. 6, Laissez-Faire.
Context: O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of man to men!
“Those whom nature has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Address by the President at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by President Lopez Matcos (29 June 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8741&st=&st1=<!-- Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project --> <br class="br">1962 <br class="br">Context: While geography has made us neighbors, tradition has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies — in a vast Alianza para el Progreso. Those whom nature has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Abigail Adams (29 October 1775), published Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, Vol. 1 (1841), ed. Charles Francis Adams, p. 72
1770s
Context: Human nature with all its infirmities and depravation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and goodness, which we have reason to believe, appear as respectable in the estimation of superior intelligences. Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute. The virtues and powers to which men may be trained, by early education and constant discipline, are truly sublime and astonishing. Newton and Locke are examples of the deep sagacity which may be acquired by long habits of thinking and study.
Fawn M. Brodie (1915–1981) American historian and biographer
No Man Knows My History, ch. 19 (1945)
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher
(1847)
Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 403.
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Preface to Villa Rubein and Other Stories (1923)
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"An Introduction", The Fireside Book of Dog Stories (Simon and Schuster, 1943); reprinted in Thurber's Dogs (1955)
From other writings
“Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay!”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Source: 1840s, Chartism (1840), Ch. 7, Not Laissez-Faire.
Context: Cash Payment the sole nexus; and there are so many things which cash will not pay! Cash is a great miracle; yet it has not all power in Heaven, nor even on Earth. 'Supply and demand' we will honour also; and yet how many 'demands' are there, entirely indispensable, which have to go elsewhere than to the shops, and produce quite other than cash, before they can get their supply? On the whole, what astonishing payments does cash make in this world!
