Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Peter Jones

Quote by Peter Jones

“Excessive consumption was not seen as a desirable sign of membership of an elite, but as a warning: it was wealth for the benefit not of the city but of the individual, and it threatened to impoverish him too. Even more dangerously, if wealthy individuals clubbed together, who knew what damage they could inflict?...Wealth could too easily pervert one's judgement.”

Quote by Peter Jones

Book:Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask
Create image

Work

Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Peter Jones

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Peter Jones. more

You May Also Like

“All Abrahamists worship God as a king, not as a divinity that transcends the human condition. They are locked into an ancient and pathetic mindset based on the power of megalomaniacal monarchs. They are on their knees because that’s what ancient peoples did in the presence of kings. In the modern day, they worship the rich, just as they once worshipped monarchs.”

ReligionFaithWealthPowerWorshipIslamJudaismChrisitanityAbrahamism
Book:Kill Religion!: The Deserved Death of Faith
Create image

“There are quadrillions of dollars in oil and other resources hidden beneath the ice in the Artic, enough to even make the wealthiest in the world drool. But how to get to those resources without it costing them money? If they use technology to warm up the atmosphere enough to melt that ice, that would work. But then, how to explain to the world why the ice caps are melting? Call it 'Global Warming' and blame it on the population.”

GovernmentWealthTechnologyRichClimate ChangeOilGlobal WarmingArtic
Author:James Thomas Kesterson Jr
Create image