• Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

    Michael Mandelbaum: Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
    Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs