Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 – Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

History is written by the victors.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.