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“When we are disconnected from love, nothing works well. We might create businesses and make money but it will cost too much. If we lack joy, peace, health, and calmness, there's not a lot to be gained from being wealthy.”

Book:Beautiful Money: The 4-Week Total Wealth Makeover

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“The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: "As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief . . . without moral purpose or human interest. . . .”

Wealth Poet Oil

Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“Wealth wants to be able to do whatever the fuck it wants to... And it's winning the war.”

War Wealth Society

Book:Kill or be Killed, Vol. 4

Source: Kill or be Killed, Vol. 4

“Speaking of California, the Illinois State Register asked: "Shall this garden of beauty be suffered to lie dormant in its wild and useless luxuriance? . . . myriads of enterprising Americans would flock to its rich and inviting prairies; the hum of Anglo-American industry would be heard in its valleys; cities would rise upon its plains and sea-coast, and the resources and wealth of the nation increased in an incalculable degree.”

Wealth California United States Of America

Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Source: A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“book collecting is only meaningful if it’s personal,” Oscar clarified. “If it’s just another way of accumulating wealth instead of for the books themselves it isn’t right. Collectors are trying to protect themselves. To separate themselves. It’s a hierarchy.”

Time Wealth Books Collecting

Book:The Secret of Lost Things

Source: The Secret of Lost Things

“Imagine what we could achieve if we all tried to help, or if at the very least we caused no harm. Imagine if we tried to be of worth rather than stockpile wealth. Or if we tried to contribute rather than compete. What if we committed to not just being the best husbands or wives, mothers or fathers, siblings and friends, but also the best neighbours and the best strangers?”

Wealth Money Wife Positive Thinking Husband Competition Harm Help Strangers Stockpile

Book:What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future

Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future

“He didn't look like a wealthy man, but it was the well-off who could afford such a disguise. You had to be rich to risk looking broke.”

Wealth Appearance

Book:The Ballad of Black Tom

Source: The Ballad of Black Tom

“I completely agree. The crazy thing is that the current system only benefits the rich and those in power. We buy into their arguments, even when they contradict our direct experiences. We accept the unacceptable. Take Marduk. We live in one of the richest cities in the world, in a developed country, and yet we have one of the highest levels of inequality and homelessness. How strange that despite our wealth we should be so greedy!”

Wealth Greed Equality

Book:Darkness

Source: Darkness

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