"I see from time to time coins that are tinted with red, having been handled by a butcher or a murderer, and the sight of that money makes me wonder. As I think about the probable origin of that sign of wealth, I tell myself that that is indeed its true color, the color which it should, which it must have, the color that was doubtless taken on by Judas’s pieces of silver, after which he ceased to recognize them and returned them at once to the egregious scoundrels who had given them to him. These, not recognizing the pieces themselves, did not want to return to the treasury of the Temple money so strange in its color. Everyone knows they used it to buy the field of blood, a generic name which I imagine can be applied to all bourgeois holdings ever since the Scourging and Crucifixion of Jesus Christ."
React to this quote
More by Léon Bloy
See allResonant Thoughts
"What has caused confusion and misunderstanding about his Hinduism is the concept of sarva-dharma-samabhAva which he had developed after deep reflection. Christian and Muslim missionaries have interpre…"
"ICELANDER: So say all the philosophers. But since that which is destroyed suffers, and that which is born from its destruction also suffers in due course, and finally is in its turn destroyed, would y…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
— George Bernard Shaw"3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach ; rich Men Stomach for their Meat."
— Thomas Fuller (writer)"RichardBehar.com - Richard Behar's official home page"
— Richard Behar"Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for y…"
— Oliver Goldsmith"Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millio…"
— Rutherford B. Hayes"The bourgeois, for his part, possessed neither of the inordinate ambitions of the great nor of the patience…"
— Bernard Groethuysen
