Aboriginal Quote by Karl Marx

“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and…

— Jack Weatherford

“Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In…

— Howard Zinn

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others -…

— Anonymous

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted…

— Seneca the Younger

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that…

— Ayn Rand

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

“It is therefore impossible to understand the unification of humankind as a purely economic process. In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of…

— Mark Twain

“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't…

— David Graeber

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

— Arthur Schopenhauer