The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams

"Wherever civilization has reached the point at which energy expresses itself through money, faith must be subordinate to the representative of wealth"

Outlines of American Political Economy by Friedrich List

"Government has not only the right, but it is its duty, to promote everything which may increase the wealth and power of the nation"

Essays on Animal Husbandry by Jared Eliot

"He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity."

History of Monetary Systems by Alexander del Mar

“[M]onuments had come to be regarded only as so much bullion, and every provincial governor or barbarian king would be tempted to reduce them to metal, in order that, upon recoining them, his own upstart image might shine in the glass that had once reflected a Romulus, a Caesar”

"Incelcore vs. the World" Ruined an Entire Generation of Artists

"The same elements of the internet that help to cultivate and disseminate the ideas of dissident political movements seem to preclude those movements from a healthy and well-tended taste for the arts"