Expense Accounts

Famous quotes containing the words expense and/or accounts:

“After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother, but it is normal.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don’t seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it’s because we’re engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves ... as supplicants admitted to a shrine.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)