Fairytales Quote by James Finn Garner

“A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, “If you don’t whip me,…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking…

— Anonymous

“What in Tink's contractual hell are you doing here?”

— Kim Harrison

“The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” I gave further thought to the life of what we…

— Gary Keesee

“After some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks…

— William Carlos Williams

“The man who employs either his labour or his stock in a grater variety of ways than his situation renders necessary, can never hurt…

— Adam Smith

“Obviously, there’s no way of making money that doesn’t hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or…

— K.J. Parker

“Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks…

— Juvenal

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward…

— David Riesman

“The true luxury and the real potlatch of our times falls to the poverty-stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs.…

— Georges Bataille

“A lesser man might have begrudged him that, but remembering the old adage, "The finder’s goods shall he retain / Nor mind the loser’s…

— Vinnie Tesla