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In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, “The Myth of Barter”, p. 40
- History
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara1928–1967On Revolutionary Medicine (1960)
- Life & Death
Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 10: “The Scent of Money”
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (13 July 1879)
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (16 February 1890)
- Economics
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (12 December 1890)
- Economics
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (11 March 1888)
- Power
As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (15 May 1878)
- Knowledge
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961
- War & Peace
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book II, Chapter 13In context
- Failure
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Christmas
If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Katharine Hepburn1907–2003
- Sex
The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.
Augustine of Hippo354–430Patrologia Latina, vol. 37, p. 1922
- Charity
The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power…
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679Leviathan (1651), The First Part, Chapter 10, p. 42In context
- Power
Always remember that if a man knows where he can make a dollar, he will not tell you about it; he will go after it himself.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 137.