Nancy Mitford Quotes

In no country in the world is the love of property more active and more anxious than in the United States.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Things are done according to money these days.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Not everything in the United States is for sale.

Many anti-American cartoons abroad depict Uncle Sam brandishing a dollar as a symbol of American civilization. There is more ignorance than malice in this platitude. As a matter of fact, it is not money, it is work which holds sway over American civilization.

When you understand that everything - and I do mean everything - in this nation that we live in, if not this world, is connected to the almighty dollar, it doesn't mean you worship it.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

That's all you people care about, is money.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.