Norman O. Brown Quotes

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Norman O. Brown

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Norman O. Brown