money

"Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the ‘last man’—he who will pay an…"

"“A darvesh brought to the notice of the Emperor that the Musalmans felt dejected on account of Zakat and that they should be exempted from paying it. Jumdat-ul Mulk now sought the Emperor’s orders reg…"

"To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers."

"If, as is quite possible, America refuses to deal with the social evils that persist in the sixties, it will at the same time have turned its back on the racial minorities. There will be speeches on e…"

"No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by i…"

"By looting, the temples of the South and hunting out buried treasures, Mir Jumla amassed a vast fortune. The huge Hindu idols of copper were brought away in large numbers to be melted and cast into ca…"

"User Profile for Richard Wolffe, Take Back America 2007 conference."

"If you'd asked me as a kid how rich people became poor, I'd have said by spending all their money. That's how it happens in books and movies, because that's the colorful way to do it. But in fact the …"

"The Scots are subsidy junkies whingeing like a trampled bagpipe as they wait for their next fix of English taxpayers' money."

"As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of lear…"

"Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn'…"

"Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed."

"The best way to save money is not to lose it."

"Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws."

"At the same time that the rules have been rewritten to favor the already rich, new rules have been written that ensure harsh treatment for the poor... Coping with the foul effects of poverty costs us …"

"It is from a strange mixture of tyranny and cowardice that exclusions have been set up and continued. The boldness to do wrong at first, changes afterwards into cowardly craft, and at last into fear. …"

"My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands."

"The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting."

"the money the system invests in purchasing things the system intends to sell."

"Money often costs too much."