Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own... a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,... And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titl...es.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well wha...t he knows, not guessing but calculating; strong in community, yielding obedience to authority; of experienced race; of wonderful, wonderful common sense; dull but capable, slow but persevering, severe but just, of little humor but genuine; a laboring man, despising game and sport; building a house that endures, a framed house. He buys the Indian's moccasins and baskets, then buys his hunting-grounds, and at length forgets where he is buried and plows up his bones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw... and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtain...ed is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put... into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its senate-house. I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party. However, I was released the next day, obtained my mended shoe, and returned to the woods in season to get my dinner of huckleberries on Fair Haven Hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that ...he has and buys that field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs... from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to kee...p a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »