Browsing Quotes With Tag: wealth (32)
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whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The one thing that’s clear is that new ideas won’t emerge without the jettisoning of much of our accustomed categories of thought— which have become mostly sheer dead weight, if not intrinsic parts of the very apparatus of hopelessness—and formulating new ones. This is why I spent so much of this book talking about the market, but also about the false choice between state and market that so monopolized political ideology for the last centuries that it made it difficult to argue about anything else.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is to see ourselves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference in the course of world events. This is exactly what the militarization of history is trying to take away.
Even if we are at the beginning of the turn of a very long historical cycle, it’s still largely up to us to determine how it’s going to turn out. For instance: the last time we shifted from a bullion economy to one of virtual credit money, at the end of the Axial Age and the beginning of the Middle Ages, the immediate shift was experienced largely as a series of great catastrophes. Will it be the same this time around? Presumably a lot depends on how consciously we set out to ensure that it won’t be.Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.
Speaker: John Maynard KeynesSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Speaker: Ursula K. Le GuinSource: The DispossessedPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand, and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor.
Speaker: Pierre BordieuSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Seven deadly sins: politics without principle; wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; business without morality; science with humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Speaker: E. Stanley JonesPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wall Street is a casino in which high stakes wagers are placed within a limited number of betting houses that keep a percentage of the wins for themselves and fob off losses on others, including taxpayers.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the basic assumptions of capitalism is that those who earn huge sums of money must be worth it.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being rich now means having enough money that you don’t have to encounter anyone who isn’t.
Speaker: Robert ReichSource: AftershockPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.
Speaker: Andrew CarnegiePosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And what was money? It was merely a temptation to commit wrong. Rich people weren’t happy. They were generally miserable and usually confused. Most of the time they didn’t even realize they were rich; almost without exception, they wrongly viewed themselves as middle-class. But there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you’re rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Downtown OwlPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 7:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
She’s right of course. It’s not fair. Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The HobbitPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It has been estimated that in ceremonial of this kind, salutes to royalty and other distinguished personages, the opening and closing of harbours, guns fired at daybreak and sunset from ships and fortresses throughout the civilized world, some 150,000 cannons are uselessly discharged every twenty-four hours. At six francs a time this amounts to 900,000 francs a day, or 300 millions a year. A detail in passing. Meanwhile the poor continue to die of hunger.
Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Speaker: Russell GreenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
Speaker: Evan EsarPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!