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Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money—only for wanting to keep your own money.

— Joseph Sobran Attributed Journalism is War (2009)

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Sociology is among other things the study of distinctive forms of group behavior. It can say in Latin things we’re forbidden by the taboos to say in plain English. A 'bigot' is a guy who gets caught practicing sociology without a license.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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