“Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.”
Source: How to Be a Hermit, or a Bachelor Keeps House
“She took Sunny's coat off, and then her own, and dropped them both on the floor. Normally, of course, one should hang up one's coat on a hook or in a closet, but itchy hives are very irritating and tend to make one abandon such matters.”
Source: The Wide Window
“Today our children are our reflection. Tomorrow they will be our shadows.”
Source: Manners That Matter for Moms: The Essential Book of Life Skills for Your Kids
“Manners,” I say. “It ain't polite to taste people. Shit.”
Source: Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.”
Source: Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“Money, an invention in which its creators decide who gets what amount of the finite pie. A person could work miracles for humankind and be given next to none of this manmade item, whereas another person could do next to nothing, or even perform major adverse actions against humankind and the planet, and be given a huge helping of it. This is because the monetary system that was initially used as a way of keeping track of goods and services rendered had been hijacked by the Masters to be used against the population.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“All the pieces of the puzzle were in play—money, different forms of currency, taxes, fees, debt, slavery, news, media, conditioning, programming, politicians, political parties, political issues, secret societies, religions, all the isms, et cetera. They were collectively upheld for one single reason—control. Money was the most effective means for control.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.”
Source: Antigone