money

"Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

"The right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted. Let us admit also the right to regulate the terms and conditions of labor, which is the chief element of wealth,…"

"Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth."

"The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and t…"

"In short, once the RPF controlled the Rwandan state, it immediately turned its prodigious killing machine towards Zaire’s natural resources. This it may have done under cover of chasing the Hutu genoc…"

"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected."

"Professor Richard Gombrich | University of Oxford"

"In the past decade the distinction between connotation and denotation has been blurred by politics. The definitions of words should not change with every shift in the winds of public sentiment. Our so…"

"Money is the best counterfeit money."

"‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’"

"Films of the Golden Age: Tallulah Bankhead"

"Roman coins of Elagabalus"

"If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you."

"God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to…"

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holdi…"

": "Let us not ignore the fact that there is another community settled here in our midst. I refer to the Indians. They have increased more rapidly than we. They have become producers on our soil. They …"

"“……Malik Naib Kafur marched on to Ma’bar, which he also took. He destroyed the golden idol temple of Ma’bar, and the golden idols which for ages had been worshipped by the Hindus of that country. The …"

"The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better."

"I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras."

"Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be."