The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BC
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Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverb