1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pi1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
I don't care too much for money Money can't buy me love The Beatles
Money makes the world go around It makes the world go 'round. Cabaret
They can beg and they can plead But they can't see the light (that's right) 'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash Is always mister right
'Cause we are living in a material world And I am a material girl Madonna-Material Girl
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history. Karl Marx
Money never sleeps Gordon Gekko in Wall Street
It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money. Joe E. Lewis
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people Sharing all the world John Lennon
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We will build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration camp. That's the bastion of money. Adolph Hitler
‘Couldn’t succeed!...I didn’t have enough money, that’s all. If Napoleon at Waterloo had had another hundred thousand men to send out to get killed, he would have won, and the face of the world would have been changed. And I, if I had had the few hundreds of millions I needed...I would be the master of the world. Aristide Saccard the grand speculator, in Zola’s Money
...the collectivist state will only have to do what you do, take you over in one go after you’ve taken over the smaller companies one by one, and thus fulfil the ambition of your extravagant dream, which is to absorb all the capital of the world, to be the sole bank—isn’t that so?—to be the one general depository of public wealth… Sigismund Busch, the Marxist, in Zola’s Money
...out of all that abominable suffering that humanity has to pay for every step forward, is there not an obscure and distant goal, something superior, something good, just and definitive, toward which we move without knowing it, but which fills our hearts with the obstinate need to live, and hope? Madame Caroline, the voice of conscience and reason, in Zola’s Money
Why then blame money for the dirt and crimes it causes? Is love any less sullied, love, the creator of life? The concluding lines of Zola’s Money.
Money is neither good nor evil. It’s a medium of exchange. People are a mixture of both good and evil, and we put money to uses that are good and bad. Gary I. ...more
The title refers to an odd fusion of Hegelian/Marxian historicism by way of Alexander Kojeve and Nietzsche. ManSecond reading: Originally read in 1992
The title refers to an odd fusion of Hegelian/Marxian historicism by way of Alexander Kojeve and Nietzsche. Many readers will interpret this book as triumphalist flag-waving for Liberal Democracy's late 20th century triumph over Soviet Socialism. I don't think that's what Fukuyama intended. Wars of aggression, oppression, poverty, plague, famine, prejudice, intolerance, etc. are here and will be for the foreseeable future. We're very much "in history." If there is such a thing as "dialectical materialism" the clash of ideas, worldviews, cultures, and civilizations is ongoing. As for "last men," there are millions who will sacrifice liberty for security, and that will continue to be the case as long what we might call the "human condition" or "human nature" persists. That means forever in human terms, unless we "evolve" into some sort of "super-humans," or cyborgs, or Frankenstein's monsters. Don't hold your breath.
I suppose those among us who agree with Fukuyama believe a world made safe for Liberal Globalist Democracy is the "best of all possible worlds" but millions who prefer totalitarianism, racial superiority, nationalism, global socialism, laissez-faire capitalism, oligarchy, plutocracy, theocracy, etc. continue to disagree. And those disagreements inevitably lead to conflicts in culture, economics and politics, subversion, cyber-warfare, repression, aggression, revolutions, coups, civil war, cold war, hot war and genocide. In that regard, I believe Hobbes and Machiavelli had a better understanding of the "human condition" or "human nature" than Fukuyama et. al. If you're on the road to Utopia, better watch out for all those roadblocks, bumps and pot holes, not to mention the land mines and nukes. ...more
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