Quote of the Day for 2016-07-09

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy."

— John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Quoted in "The Loneliness of John D. Rockefeller," Current Literature (November 1906)

Solon and Croesus by Gerard van Honthorst (1624)

Quote of the Day for 2016-05-06

"Terrorism … is a war of the poor against the rich. War is terrorism of the rich against the poor."

— Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) Achtung! Vorurteile (2003)

The World Trade Center, the morning of September 12, 2001. Photograph by Jim MacMillan

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-07

"In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

— Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) "The Waverley Novels," The National Review, April 1858

The Uprising by Honoré Daumier (1860)