“Fake life is expensive.”
“There is no point where you are content when the target is excess.”
Source: What's Going On? How Can We Help?: The consequences of capitalism and actionable steps towards a healthy and sustainable future
“This was the kind of home that was safely hidden from the eyes of those who could not afford to live this way. That's what wealth does for you, she thought. It gives you the means and the power to remain concealed from the world if you choose - or if you need to.”
Source: The Last Mrs. Parrish
“For no deity is held in such reverence amongst us as Wealth; though as yet, O baneful money, thou hast no temple of thine own; not yet have we reared altars to Money in like manner as we worship Peace and Honour, Victory and Virtue”
Source: The Sixteen Satires
“The persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, and the entirely merciful just and godly person.”
Source: Unto this Last
“Historians have pointed out that it is in times of plenty that people feel like going to war. In times of famine they're simply trying to find enough to eat. When they've just enough to go round they tend to be polite. But when a banquet is spread before them, it's time to argue over the place settings.”
Source: The Last Continent
“You should understand the value of time and use it accordingly in a constructive manner so that you can be blessed with time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You understand, as I do, that wealth and family mean nothing if a person is not willing to prove his full worth.”
Source: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
“Nothing is independent of time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Wealth, the war [WW1], and the phobias, manias, dementias, prejudices and terrors that come from both, were the dominant factors.”
Source: Being geniuses together, 1920-1930