Money Quote by Alain de Botton

“For Rousseau, ‘the word finance is a slave’s word’ and freedom turns into a commodity, degrading buyer and seller alike, wherever commerce reigns. ‘Financial…

— Pankaj Mishra

Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which…

— Camille Paglia

“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the new kind…

— Paul Johnson

“There are two ways to get rich. Either get more, or want less.”

— Thor Duffin

“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between…

— Niall Ferguson

“He should have told us, that before we can accumulate riches in great abundance, we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches,…

— Napoleon Hill

“Having money means more opportunity to practice generosity,” he agrees. “Which is the true cause of wealth.”

— David Michie

“Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and bankers reveal…

— Pankaj Mishra

“There is one thing alone to do in this world and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power,”…

— Kate Williams