Edmund Morris Quotes

The most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

Edmund Morris

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• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Best
  • Wealth

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Dangerous
  • Sincerity

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Same
  • Wealth

• My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wealth
  • Subject
  • Discussing

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Think
  • Wealth

• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Money
  • Free
  • Wealth

• The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Wealth

• Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Parent
  • Wealth

• If there was another real one, it could be dangerous. People could be hurt. We have to act just like we would if this were real.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Real
  • Hurt

• My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Dangerous
  • Activism
  • Pessimistic

• Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Work
  • God
  • Potential

• Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Differences

• Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

  

  August Sander
  • Photography
  • Mirrors
  • Psychological

• The most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Wealth
  • Dangerous
  • Criminal Classes