Mason Cooley Quotes
Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
Cooley, Mason. City Aphorisms. Pascal Press, 1984-1994.
In many of nations immigrant groups have been very successful and have achieved wealth and/or power in the society out of proportion to their numbers. Often the indigenous people—or those who came earlier—look at the newcomers as alien. In Fiji, citizens of Indian extraction have a disproportionate share of the wealth.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
See Jonathan Swift {35359} and William Shenstone {642165} for a later expression of this notion.
In May of 1886 police had killed some strikers for an 8 hour work day at the McCormick Plant in Chicago. A left wing newspaper called a rally using the word “revenge.” (See {43614}.) The next day, at the rally, someone threw a dynamite bomb killing several police who in turn wounded and killed many of the protestors. 31 people were indicted for the “Haymarket Bombing,” 8 were tried, and 7 were convicted and sentenced to death including Spies. There was however, no evidence linking any of the defendants with the bombing, only evidence linking them with left wing, anarchist positions and writings.
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.
