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“G-Men been tryinâ€� to snag him for years. It ain’t gonna happen. He’s smart. He’s heartless. He’s ice cold. He’s been a killer since he was twelve. He’s survived much worse than you. And, by the way, don’t think he won’t take out a few Feds if he wants to. You’re just a bunch a shitkickers to him. Who’s gonna arrest him? Huh? Cause it won’t be anyone around here. You boys need to look elsewheres for your glory and medals. That badge you got don’t mean nothinâ€� on these streets.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“It's amazinâ€� what people tell you when they’re relaxed and sittinâ€� in a barber chair.”
― A.G. Russo, Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“Somewhere, I heard the phrase, ‘When money talks, no one checks the grammar.â€� That’s what all this was about—money, money, and more money.

For money, girls sacrificed their own lives; for money, they risked sexually transmitted diseases; for money, they were willing to step beyond their convictions. For money, the agency treated us like trash thrown on the street; for money, they were willing to risk our health, safety, and everything else, and for money, they had a few select girls they treated decently.

It was never about people, morals, or decency.”
― Anna Rajmon, ELIS: Irish call girl

“Learn to say no; otherwise, people will learn to utilize you.”
― Saurabh Aditya

“Ideas must surpass gold to surpass time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Light of truth runs independent of money, all other paths lead back to animalkind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“That's why I don't pay to be heard,
Paid truth can't last the test of time.
Light of truth runs independent of money,
All other paths lead back to animalkind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“. . . I was raised in a household shaped by what might be called Jewish ethical values, particularly the concept of tikkun, the healing or repairing of the world. I was taught to believe that working to achieve this transformation is what life is all about and that material possessions are utterly unimportant. I can still recall my father pointing to all the books and records in our house and saying ¨See these, these are the only riches that count.¨”
― Judy Chicago, Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist

“My pig has become a rat in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“My rat has become a pig in his own right.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I'm tired of drinking dirty water.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A feast will leave your heart empty.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“It's the lobby that determines which floor that you sleep on.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Who does A. I. (artificial intelligence) benefit? The people it replaces or the moguls who dominate and saturate the market with pseudo human intelligence.
It may make life easier for some, but as you know, humanity can be a waste at times.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“No matter how corrupt or greedy our government is, our corporations, our media, our religious and charitable institutions may come, the music will still be wonderful”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“Man is greed's tool within his own realm.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You do not need to be a prophet to see what is going on in the world.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Civilizations come and go.
Why?
Because man's greed will always get in the way.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Eat mosquitoes and you will have a stinging appetite.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Eat bees and you will have a stinging appetite.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“It was the creative, destructive dynamic of unregulated capitalism. Rooted in human greed, it was spreading around the globe, lifting up some, dashing down others, creating wealth beyond imagining for a few, forcing many more into economic and spiritual poverty. It was what the Pullman workers had called "the dance of skeletons bathed in human tears.”
― Jack Kelly, The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

“You can make a difference in someone’s life or focus on more ways to better your own.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“I have hoped and trusted not too, Pa; but every day he changes for the worse, and for the worse. Not to me—he is always much the same to me—but to others about him. Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. If ever a good man were ruined by good fortune, it is my benefactor. And yet, Pa, think how terrible the fascination of money is! I see this, and hate this, and dread this, and don’t know but that money might make a much worse change in me. And yet I have money always in my thoughts and my desires; and the whole life I place before myself is money, money, money, and what money can make of life!”
― Charles Dickens

“There's no reasoning with greed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“If retail giants are claiming shortages on the first day of a strike, it's obvious they are using the situation as an opportunity to raise prices and increase profits.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“Gregg: What is self-interest, properly understood?
Smith: Well, it means that the individual peers more to less. In terms of traditional kind of utility theory, it means that the subjective value, say, of something like money is monotone increasing. You are worse off if you get less of it, better off if you get more of it. Now, Adam Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments says that we are all self-loving. [...] His point is that although we are all self-loving, in the process of maturation, of growing up in a social world, we are led to modify our decisions to take into account others, so that, as he says, we humble that self-interest and bring it down to what other people will go along with. So there is never a denial of the self-interest. If in an experiment in which I can take an action in which you are better off—you get more money and I get less—how do we now that more is better for someone else and less is worse? It’s because we have common knowledge of that. So in other words, being self-interested is necessary in order to know that when you take an action it can be hurtful to someone else. If you didn’t have that, then you wouldn’t know whether a particular action was hurtful or beneficial.”
― Vernon L. Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics

“Gregg: I notice you did not use the word greed in that answer. When many people hear “self-interest,â€� they think “greedâ€�. So are you suggesting that a Smithian approach actually has nothing to do with greed at all when it comes to self-interest properly understood?
Smith: It’s not a matter of greed. It’s a matter of, as Smith says, the individual being fitter than anyone else to take care of himself or herself in terms of knowing what he or she wants and in making judgments about that. And so, knowing that other people are also self-interested, I know what action I take would be hurtful to them. And then I take that into account. In other words, being self-interested is an input to our socializing process. There are many experimental economists and behavioral economists who want to explain that with a utility function so that if I am other-regarding, it’s because I am taking into account your reward as well as mine. Adam Smith says no. Adam Smith is right. It is not in the utility function. That’s the difference between an emphasis on outcomes and process.”
― Vernon L. Smith, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reflections on Faith, Science, and Economics

“Thanksgiving demands that we set aside the cultural narrative and be thankful for all of the things that the narrative says are not enough.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You will never be fast enough to outrun the consequences of your choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It's not enough to abandon archaic chains,
just as crucial is to renounce modern chains.
No matter the material and manufacture date,
golden, bronze or silicon, chains are chains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator