“Car exhaust pollution is a problem for the disabled that stand on traffic junctions begging for money.”
“In Art, since the end of the 20th century, it is not work that pays, it is the nerve.
En Art, depuis la fin du XXème, ce n’est pas le travail qui paie, c’est le culot.
Extrait de : A livre ouvert.”
Source: Knife Paintings: Lozengist Movement
“In today’s society people only ask what you do for a living to determine how much you make, so they know how to treat you.”
“Wealth has no dollar amount; it’s an abundance of change, ambition and vision.”
“Money is for rich people.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Yup, the whole world is comin' here to get paid. And our country's just one big strip-mining club, makin' it rain for everyone, hahahaha!”
Source: Reparations Maze
“Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?”
Source: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“No, we do it for the money.
'And, because we above all must know the value of a human life, we do it for a great deal of money.
'There can be few cleaner motives, so shorn of all pretence.
'Nil mortifi, sine lucre. Remember. No killing without payment.'
He paused for a moment.
'And always give a receipt,' he added.”
Source: Pyramids
“After watching what has happened over the past fifty years in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and seeing the money that is to be made from such ventures, I wonder if the adage should have a corollary: 'Those who understand the lessons of history are only too happy to repeat them.”
Source: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
“And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.”
Source: Artemis Fowl