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Gilded Age Quotes

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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age  (Gilded Age Quotes) Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens  (Gilded Age Quotes) Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice  (Gilded Age Quotes) This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school  (Gilded Age Quotes) For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation’s challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.  (Gilded Age Quotes) The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.  (Gilded Age Quotes) A market economy cannot thrive absent the well being of average people, even in a gilded age  (Gilded Age Quotes)