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
No one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head. —Rachel Cohn in Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares More about this quote Tags: others knowledge aspiration confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Tags: history repetition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you can't convince them, confuse them. —Harry S. Truman More about this quote Tags: argument persuasion confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is bad luck to be superstitious. —Andrew W. Mathis More about this quote Tags: luck irony superstition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough. —Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride More about this quote Tags: hope experience fate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A will finds a way. —Orison Swett Marden More about this quote Tags: will originality way method Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? —Leo Durocher More about this quote Tags: rules belief laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email