We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.