# Quote — David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge

> A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the productions of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation. Page 10.

- Author: [David Mamet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mamet.md)
- Book: [The Secret Knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mamet/the-secret-knowledge.md)
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> Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions. Page 28

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> The goal of the Left is a government-run country and that of the Right the freedom of the individual from government. Page 236.

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> The good causes of the Left may generally be compared to NASCAR; they offer the diversion of watching things go excitingly around in a circle, getting nowhere. Page 11.

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