Money, yes, it is the new religion. And the moguls of the Money Monarchy have become the priests and popes of this irrational age of corporate planetary domination and destruction. Yes, world bankers and trans-national corporate executives are the true religious leaders. Why? Because the highest, most esteemed calling is high finance. Whole nations are caught up in it. It has become the wishful will of the world and money, the worshipped god. The Wall Street Journal is the Bible, the bank is the cathedral and the people are the parish — and they will perish. They will perish because this religion of money seduces people into schemes and dreams of riches and doing in anyone who might get in the way. -- Wulf Zendik.
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. -- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. -- Robert W. Sarnoff
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." -- Halford E. Luccock
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. -- Spike Milligan
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. -- Izaak Walton
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. -- Bob Dylan
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. -- Jonathan Swift
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. -- Dick Gregory
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. -- Themistocles (528 BC - 462 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. -- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), quoted in Jack London's "The Iron Heel"
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. -- Unknown
Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -- Brigid Brophy
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money? -- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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Money is a good servant but a bad master. Quoted by Bacon
If you would know the value of money,go and try to borrow some. Franklin {Poor Richard's Almanac}
When I had money everyone called me brother. Polish Proverb
Ah,take the Cash,and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! Omar Khayy`am
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Thoreau
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever ment To remember or invent What he did with every cent. Robert Frost {The Hardship of Accounting}
All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy--Lee Hawkins
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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So you see money isn't everything. And it often causes pain and suffering. I tell you this because I am your Friend, and as your Friend I want to take away your pain and suffering!
So send me all your money and I will suffer for you! Cash only please.
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life out of them, molding them into money. -- Rabindranath (Tagore) Thakur.
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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"For the love of money is the root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many payments."---NOT from 1 Timothy 6:10
~~~Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our greatest weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Two weapons. And total fanatic devotion to the Pope. Three. Three weapons. Oh, let me go out and do it again.~~~
"This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security." -- Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Sprinkle Joy ~* - Emerson
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The difference between the money line and the work line is the portrait of world injustice, world disturbance, world disorder, world ungovernment, world disease, world sleep, world stupidity, world madness, world horrors, world terrors, world cruelty, world shame, world dishonour; and the difference is as great as it can be. And the most responsible, sensitive, disinterested, awake, and caring people are hardly aware of it, hardly discussing it. -- Nigel Best, Global Happiness - The greatest opportunity
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~ Scatter Joy ~* - Emerson
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Four months after September 11 and the heavily oversubscribed myth of a newly selfless world order comes windfall news for misers, money-grubbing corporate fat cats on the golden treadmill and any future contestants on Kaun Banega Crorepati: greed, it seems, is good for us and money can buy happiness, albeit a temporary respite from pain at the steep price of one million pounds.
Large injections of cash can lift even the surliest of moods and reduce stress levels in the monetary equivalent of a health farm, while a million pounds in the bank can banish the deepest melancholy in the most miserable soul, according to one of the largest and most long-term studies of the psychological effects of wealth.
"People get happier as they get richer," declares Andrew Oswald, the economics professor who led the decade-long research at Warwick University in the West Midlands, in what has been criticised by some as an excruciatingly trite, blindingly obvious statement of fact.
But, the point, says the research, was to prove the most "fundamental idea in economics, that money makes people happy".
The Warwick research team showed up the inter-linkage between Camus’s so-called "spiritual snobbery" and genteel unhappiness in poverty by studying the effects on nearly 10,000 respondents’ "mental wellbeing" of windfalls, unexpected inheritance gains and lottery wins.
One-thousand pounds, they found, temporarily made the world appear a brighter place. One-million pounds, however, induced a higher state of being, a euphoric bliss that might be described as denominational nirvana.
So far, so self-evident, but is anyone surprised? "Vindicated, I'd say," offers Tom Mathews, who attracted accusations of money-minded coarseness after his lottery win of several thousand pounds lifted him out of the depression brought on by a painful divorce two years ago.
Pyschologists say the research may help to take money out of the theological vocabulary of "evil" and dissipate the force of moral arguments against monetary gain, which led Wordsworth to write his doleful dirge on the relationship between man and Mammon in less market-driven times: "getting and spending we lay waste our powers/ little we see in nature that is ours".
But others point out that money is still not a guarantee of happiness, only a temporary pick-me-up.
The study is crucially silent on this. "Whether these happiness gains wear off over time remains an open question," it says, adding a rider that good health and a stable marriage are still the most priceless guarantee of human well-being.
A divorce can hurt as much as a wage cut of £60,000, it says, while a debilitating illness equals a loss of £200,000 a year.
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. ~ Francis Bacon ~
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity. ~ Charles F. Bunning ~
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. ~ Kahlil Gibran ~
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser was so infuriated that he hanged himself. ~ Gaius Lucilius ~
‘Do all things with love' ~Og Mandino~
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"The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent that autocracy, more selfish that bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." -- Abraham Lincoln
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ *** Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? -- Elvis Costello ***
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"To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money . and if you have money , or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?" ~ Henry Miller (1891-1980)
*** there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go. - e.e. cummings
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Alice, I'm not bumping this one... but I found a really good quote.
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"Meanwhile down at the mall there's a mid-season sale. Everything's discounted-oceans, rivers, oil, gene pools, fig wasps, flowers, childhoods, aluminum factories, phone companies, wisdom, wilderness, civil rights, eco-systems, air-all 4,600 million years of evolution. It's packed, sealed, tagged, valued and available off the rack. No returns. As for justice- I'm told it's on offer too. You can get the best that money can buy. -- Arundhati Roy
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ *** Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? -- Elvis Costello ***
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Planet earth is in crises and the majority of world population cannot meet their basic needs because people do not have the means to purchase increasingly expensive resources. Money is now the determinant of people’s standard of living rather than the availability of resources.
~Jacque Fresco (industrial designer & social engineer) Essay: The Obsolete Monetary System
