15 Quotes by Hal Rothman

Many people believe the strip clubs are the last vestiges of mob influence. Some of them have a mob past, and some of them don't.

For us, it would be the final step toward status as a major American city. We're already a major city, but this would be the icing on the cake.

It was never big enough, never spectacular enough and never unique enough to really be worthy of anybody's attention. The real estate's valuable, the building isn't.

Not a lick. It has almost no importance in shaping moral conduct.

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.