#money

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts ↗

— Paul Knott

#humor #money #money

Ideology follows the money." "Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war. ↗

— Lawrence Samuels

#complexity-science #economics #human-action #politics #money

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#psychology #money

This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost. After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #god #i-deal-to-plunder

Every player eventually loses all their money. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#casino #gambling #gaming #i-deal-to-plunder #louisiana

A street without trees is a street only for the sick-minded people whose god is nothing but money! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#money

Now, money, for the night is coming. Money for my hair, money for my teeth, money for shoes that won't deform my feet (it's not so easy now to walk around in cheap shoes with very high heels), money for good clothes, money, money. The night is coming. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#night #money

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#illusion #money #thirst #victim #money

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#debt #story #money

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over. ↗

— Ted Dekker

#money #relationships #money