Saul Bellow on Identified Evil of Cash

Posted by admin on Friday, July 4, 2014

Saul Bellow Money Quotation saying often we seek to eliminate evils once they are identified, but not money. Saul Bellow said:
 

 

“There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war — Saul Bellow”

 

 

Saul Bellow is suggesting that some evils, like money and war, have a way of persisting even after we recognize and identify them as problems. Even though we are aware of the harms that can come from an overemphasis on money or the horrors of war, the underlying forces and incentives that drive these phenomena are so deeply ingrained that they have proven able to continue on, essentially surviving efforts to curb or eliminate them.

His quote implies that money and war have a resilience and ability to adapt that allows them to remain problematic aspects of human societies, despite our best efforts to reform or do away with the negative aspects of each.

Birthday: June 10, 1915 – Death: April 5, 2005