State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
Quotes About Money
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
Time is a waste of money.
— Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
— Endless Night
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
— Les Misérables
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.
— Emma
More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.
— The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.
— The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living
The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
— The Communist Manifesto
The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
— The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
— The Wealth of Nations
Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.
Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
— The Wealth of Nations
The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.