When you notice that some people will do anything for money, you might ask why? The answer, is that those people are desperate and ignorant, due to the present societal conditions created by those that have attempted to dominate everyone else financially. The black and white attitude, that assumes one of the only two extremes it can perceive, is a correct analysis of the situation, also assumes everyone else must have the same limited perception. Thus they treat all others as if they are opponents. It thereby creates what it fears, through the act of competition. The financial domination breeds the same state of mind. We end up with the condition society is in right now. Rothschild created the competition he despised. This shines light on his inner cries for friendship, and his vengeance towards humanity for not finding it.
When you have this state of mind, you seek out a solution to the present problems you have, never considering the long term consequences. This compounds the consequences, because it creates more of the same conditions. More people emulate that state of mind, that type of behavior, that perception. Never stopping long enough to consider that treating others like shit results in others treating you like shit. This snap-action narrow perception, is one of kill or be killed. Totally idiotic. This is the establishment of 'rank', that people tend to label animals with. Its not a rank, or any alpha bullshit. Its just a group of fearful entities fighting over what they perceive to be limited resources. Simply put, its a narrow perception, had by all involved.
Some people will not do 'anything' for money, because of the consequences to others, not just to themselves. If you create a society that acts only for today's needs, you create a society that becomes more difficult to live in. Not just for yourself, but for everyone. Experience and imagination offer foresight, which can be used to navigate your life.
What goes around, comes around.
The ignorant perception oscillates from one extreme to the other. The ignorant has difficulty seeing the shades of gray. The ignorant reacts to sensory input, without awareness of the consequences of its actions.
Experience has learned that it is best to pause sometimes, long enough to imagine how different scenarios might play out. What looks like an easy out, might not be, in hindsight or contemplation.
If you are not under fire, taking bullets, then what is the rush to make a quick judgment?
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"Free Stuff" Isn't All That It's Cracked Up to Be | Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-08/free-stuff-isnt-all-its-cracked-be
Submitted by Louis Rouanet via The Mises Institute,
To my British and American friends who must deal with the socialist nonsense of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn, I found this poem. It was written by Rudyard Kipling, the writer most hated by English Socialists in the 40s and an opponent to the interventionist policies implemented by the Labour Party after the second world war:
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "iƒ you don’t work you die."
This poem is not an exaggeration. At the time, it was decreed by the Control of Engagement Order that “no man between the ages of 18 and 50, or woman between the ages of 18 and 40, can change occupations at will. The Minister of Labor has the power to direct such workers to the employment he considers best for the national interest.” This Order was abolished only in March 1950.
At the time, the consequences of "democratic socialism" were disastrous: no food, no housing, no clothing, no fuel. By 1948, rations had fallen well below the wartime average. At the same date, one could read in The New Statesman, which was by no means a virulent opponent of Planning: "You may have social security, but you cannot go into a store and buy two quarts of milk." To which an English commentator replied: "You not only cannot buy two quarts of milk. You cannot buy one. You can only get two quarts of milk on your doorstep a week. If you try to get more you are apt to land in jail."
Planned chaos was the logical outcome of the foolish socialist policies implemented by the British government. John T. Flynn, the great libertarian journalist, in his book The Road Ahead (1949) noticed the devastating effects of government intervention in housing. He wrote:
The bombs and guided missiles that destroyed 300,000 British dwellings in World War II were not the worst enemies of British home ownership. That honor is reserved for the persons who advocated laws for "low-cost public housing" and for "cooperation" between government and private enterprise in housing for low income groups.
Great Britain is spending as large a proportion of its income on housing as it did before the war, but it is getting barely half the number of homes. During 4 years after World War II, only 367,761 permanent houses were built, compared with a total of 2,500,000 in the 8 years before the war, of which 1,888,000 were built by private enterprise. Owing to the greater need for housing, and 300,000 dwellings having been made uninhabitable by the war, various types of housing and control acts were passed. But, inevitably, the more control, the less housing.
In January, 1947, a great plan for affordable/free housing was announced by the government. It was supposed to furnish 250,000 houses in the year. The government went on with the plans and mobilized all sorts of resources: plaster, cement, plumbing, nails, brick and other materials necessary were ordered and produced. But after some time, it was discovered that lumber could not be supplied for more than 60,000 houses. The great plan failed miserably, falling short by 190,000 houses. In the meantime, all the other materials were being furiously produced and it was also discovered that there was not enough labor to produce them. Bricks, plaster, and other things produced were pilling up, wasted for lack of buyers. The plan was a pathetic fiasco. Whether it is Sanders or Corbyn, the policies they support will fail for the same reason socialism failed in the post-WWII United Kingdom. One does not have to think much to understand the parallel between the “affordable housing” policies of the English Labour Party and the request for “free” education or health care. It will fail because governments cannot operate rational allocation of resources, because markets are necessary to the good functioning of an economy.
In fact, "democratic socialism" was such a failure in post-WWII England that a long-time member of the Labour Party, Alfred Edwards, had to admit:
I have spent years discoursing on the defects of the Capitalist system. I do not withdraw those criticisms. But we have seen the two systems side by side. And the man who would still argue for socialism as the means of ridding our society of the defects of capitalism is blind indeed. Socialism just does not work.
Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may like post-WWII England and its so-called “social policies.” The truth however is that no one really wants to go back to a time were government was running every aspect of your life, to a time were shortages, rather than prosperity, was the rule.
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Money Quotes & Sayings (Finances, Wealth, Budget, Financial, Materialism, Cash, Rich, Poor, etc)
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True sterling happiness and joy
Are not with gold allied;
Nor can it yield a pleasure like
A merry fireside...
~J.J. Reynolds, "A World of Love at Home," in The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, October 1844
The man of the constitutional régime is not a merry-maker, quite the contrary. He is hypocritical, avaricious, and profoundly selfish; whatever question strikes against his brow, his brow rings like a drawer full of big pennies. ~Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel, 1843, translated from the French by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1890
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
Never spend your money before you have it. ~Thomas Jefferson
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~Gloria Steinem
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn
Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown
Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Money is like water: in sufficient volume, it erodes the bedrock of principle, and cuts its own channel. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ~George Savile, Complete Works, 1912
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves
When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are no pockets in a shroud. ~Author Unknown
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life. ~Michael Leboeuf
There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~Coco Chanel
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Human Nature," Afterthoughts, 1931
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion. ~Ambrose Bierce
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer
"Your money, or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ~Bob Hope
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
~Lord Byron
Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown
If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. ~Author Unknown
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen
I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Louis
Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire
A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder
Women prefer men who have something tender about them — especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown
Money often costs too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin. Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926
Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment. ~Dutch Proverb
The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ~Khalil Gibran
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~Henry Fielding
It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. ~Charles J.C. Lyall
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi
A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
And that brings us back to this graph and this distribution of our life. I accumulated a lot of money when I think about it. When you think and you say, now is the time to give back — well, if you're giving back, you took too much.... [M]y financial advisor in New York, he says, look, you're a silly guy because you would have 4.1 times more money today if you had made money with money instead of sharing as you go. But I like sharing as you go better. ~Ricardo Semler, "How to run a company with (almost) no rules," TEDGlobal, October 2014
There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. ~Robert Benchley
Wealth — any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ~H.L. Mencken
Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. ~Louisa May Alcott, "Christie," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman. ~Alexander Berkman, What Is Communist Anarchism?
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde
Money that is obtained without effort is spent without conscience. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer, www.lumpenbangenpiano.com
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg
I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~Oscar Wilde
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. ~Zig Ziglar
Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box. ~German Proverb
The world turns on a dime, the same now as it always has — which is to say, money makes the world go 'round. It's also what makes the world go spinning out of control. ~Joe Murray, "History updates current events," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 10th 1992
The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Modern man is one who drives a mortgaged car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas! ~Cy N. Peace, 1957
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold...
'T is heaven alone that is given away,
'T is only God may be had for the asking;
There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851
Gentlemen prefer bonds. ~Andrew Mellon
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I wonder now if you ever remember...
Whether your June is all turned to December...
Gone are those winters of chats and of dances...
Gone the aroma of life's young romances...
Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance...
Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance...
~Christopher Pearse Cranch, "Marion Dale"
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare
Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918
If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. ~Amory Lovins
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943
Money is nothing more than arrogance on paper. ~Hunter Brinkmeier
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
~Hilaire Belloc, "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse, 1923
In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder. ~Author Unknown
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~Henrik Ibsen
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry.
~William Shakespeare
[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game
Sometimes I think that all mankind
exist but to be bought and sold:
The rich man's paramour is gold,
the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 1897 January 8th
Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman
Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown
I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets.
~William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1593
Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~George Bernard Shaw
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. ~Terri Guillemets
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw
If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown
That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
~Richard Armour
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Money is a headache, and money is the cure. ~Terri Guillemets
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891
