Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

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

Of course, I do everything for money.

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

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

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

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

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.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

A siege is an act of war.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Bobby Knight told me this: ‚There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.‘ In other words a good offense wins.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

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