If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. … Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. … It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: honesty history disappointment progress failure work laws illusions delusions resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. …This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of hearts, there remains… an uprooted small corner of evil. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn More about this quote Tags: humanity politics evil good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection. … Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: money corruption affection healing wounds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: democracy money vulgarity prices wages Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. … Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. —Camille Paglia More about this quote Tags: enjoyment feminism nature capitalism debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? —Ayn Rand More about this quote Tags: evil money root cause Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: technology morality money fire Bible socialism monarchy pornography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: government traffic regulation libertarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: politics poverty government wealth rich people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice. —Arnold Toynbee More about this quote Tags: justice politics history power struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. —Dorothy L. Sayers More about this quote Tags: expectations labor money economics banking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith. —Helen Rowland More about this quote Tags: money faith greed motivation dollars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email