Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows... that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensation...alism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if t...he Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said the city was spared a golden-oak period because its residents, lacking money to buy the popular atrocities of the ninet...ies, necessarily clung to their rosewood and mahogany.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can't earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It's like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, sh...avings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided am...ong those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys th...at do not turn to dross in one's hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »