quotes about Money Power

last updated: November 28, 2023

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
-- Siva Vaidhyanathan

Source : Siva Vaidhyanathan (2005). “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”, p.124, Basic Books

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“It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.”

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“I'm a good woman for a bad man.”
“What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.”
“I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.”
“Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.”
“The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.22, Harper Collins
“A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all”
“All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.”
“[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.”
“After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.”