“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
Anatole France
“The United States is neither Capitalist nor Socialist but more an individual group in both government and business who uses such terms to divide and conquer in their pursuit to control.”
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“Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.”
John Updike
“Sacred cows make the best hamburger”
Mark Twain
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”
William Orville Douglas
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
Charles Caleb Colton
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
