The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.


Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read (ed. 1964)

Edward Dahlberg Quotes

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our...

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our...

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our...

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our...