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Ludwig von Mises, fully Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
Inflation can be pursued only so long as the public still does not believe it will continue. Once the people generally realize that the inflation will be continued on and on and that the value of the monetary unit will decline more and more, then the fate of the money is sealed. Only the belief, that the inflation will come to a stop, maintains the value of the notes.
Ludwig von Mises, fully Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
The quantity of money available in the whole economy is always sufficient to secure for everybody all that money does and can do.
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Ludwig von Mises, fully Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises
In all countries where inflation has been rapid, it has been observed that the decrease in the value of the money has occurred faster than the increase in its quantity.
Those three things - autonomy, complexity and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It is not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether our work fulfills us.
Effort | Happy | Money | People | Qualities | Reward | Work |
Margaret Mitchell, fully Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
All wars are sacred,to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is ’save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!’ Sometimes it’s ’down with Popery!’ and sometimes ‘Liberty!’ and sometimes ‘Cotton, Slavery and States’ Rights!
Enough | Money | People | Reality | Reason | Slavery | Words |
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction? That's a government subsidy of families, yet we resent putting money directly into public housing. We take our deduction for dependent care yet resent putting money directly into child care. Common sense and necessity are beginning to erode old notions of the private invasion of family life, because so many families are in trouble.
Beginning | Care | Children | Common Sense | Family | Government | Money | Necessity | Parents | Property | Public | Sense | Government | Child | Old | Parent |
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Mario Puzo, fully Mario Gianluigi Puzo
The man with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
We have the best government that money can buy.
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Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Mateo Alemán, fully Mateo Alemán y de Enero
The poor man is a kind of money that is not current; the subject of every idle housewife's chat; the off-scum of the people; the dust of the street, first trampled under foot and then thrown on the dunghill; in conclusion, the poor man is the rich man's ass.
Mayer Rothschild, fully Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Mayer Rothschild, fully Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Mayer Rothschild, fully Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
Give me the power of the money and it will not matter any more who is commanding.
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
After 9/11, charities like the Red Cross — which was subjected to a congressional inquisition — got a lot of criticism for collecting money on behalf of victims and using that as a cushion for the next catastrophe