"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."

"To the extent that money, with its colourlessness and its indifferent quality, can become a common denominator of all values, it becomes the frightful leveller — it hollows out the core of things, the…"

"The modern city is a machine for the production of indifference."

"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society."

"Money is the most terrible destroyer of form."