Petrus Borel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.
-- Petrus Borel

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It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.
-- Petrus Borel

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I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
-- Petrus Borel

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In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.
-- Petrus Borel

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If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

Petrus Borel famous quotes

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