Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

In practice nobody cares if work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except " Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised.

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

A fortunate birth, in other words, is a shock absorber." -The Thought Experiment