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Jasper Fforde
“Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.”
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

Bertrand Russell
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
Bertrand Russell

Leo Tolstoy
“But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Robert  Stone
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.”
Robert Stone

Michael Pollan
“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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