His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
The idea of insider information to me is almost, like, laughable.
What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
