A Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
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The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.
What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.
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