#um

From the look on your face, I'd say you know him." I nodded. "Sold him a cannoli when I was in high school." Connie grunted. "Honey, half of all the women in New Jersey have sold him their cannoli ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#money

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. ↗

— Ron Paul

#capitalism #central #central bank #cherishes #contracts

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't like. ↗

— Emile Gauvreau

#money

It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#hope #human-rights #hunger #inequality #injustice

How the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#money

I hope people don't take kittens on a whim, like they would a toy, then not care for them. ↗

— Shirley Rousseau Murphy

#humane #impulse #kittens #money

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#job #money #money

Commerce is the new green. Spend your money where your beliefs are. ↗

— S. Kelley Harrell

#consumerism #green #money

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility. ↗

— Niall Ferguson

#humanity #man #money #money

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#money #murder #pro-bono #summary #survival