Estates Quotes - Page 11

• Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

  Juvenal

  Mean, Men, Way

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• The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.

  Nathalia Crane

  Summer, Fate, Night

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Real, War

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

  George Crabbe

  May, Rogues, Lawyer

  George Crabbe, “Tale III”

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• The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to carry this debt. [...] The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Lying, Essence

  "Financial Capitalism v. Industrial Capitalism". michael-hudson.com. September 3, 1998.

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• The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

  Maria Nikiforova

  People, Want, Detachment

  "Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc" by Malcolm Archibald, Dublin: Black Cat Press, (p. 24), 2007.

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.

  Kevin Myers

  Book, People, Language

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• There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Simple, Technology, Class

  "The Future As History". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter I, Part 6, The Inevitability of Progress, p. 31, 1960.

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• Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

  William Poundstone

  Years, Salary, Cash

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan

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• But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

  Alexander Pope

  World, Want, Poverty

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park”, p.99

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• If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.

  Andrew Johnson

  Real, Writing, Color

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865”, p.599, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  Ted Nugent

  Art, Real, Sunday

  "Vegans, Keep Out: It's Hunting Season". Interview with Danny Hakim, The New York Times, September 27, 2005.

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• Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

  William Bradford

  Liberty, Enjoyment

  "An Old Philadelphian: Colonel William Bradford". Book by John W. Wallace, 1884.

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• The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Pay, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

  John Dewey

  Medicine, Humanity, Inquiry

  1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy.

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• I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It's not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Real, Home

  Source: www.today.com

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• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

  Peter Weiss

  Running, Country, Kings

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• The biggest industrial sector next to real estate is oil, gas and other mineral resources. They don't report any taxable income, because if you depict yourself as earning a profit, you have to pay a tax on it. So, it's all about what accountants choose to declare as profit.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Oil, Income

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

  Herbert Hoover

  Wisdom, Party, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”

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• The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Home, Hebrew, Assets

  "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs : From Peace to War". Book by Shabtai Teveth, 1985.

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• An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Italian, Desire

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• The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Journalism, Realms, Fourth

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• My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

  Dana Gioia

  Wise, Real, Blessed

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan

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