Nietzsche Quote
Usually I am not a huge fan of Nietzsche, but this is particularly terrific.
“What induces one man to use false weights, another to set his house on fire after having insured it for more than its value, while ¾ of our upper class indulge in legalized fraud . . . what gives rise to all this? It is not real want – for their existence is by no means precarious . . . but they are urged day and night by a terrible impatience at seeing their wealth pile up so slowly, and by an equally terrible longing and love for those heaps of gold. . . What was once done ‘for the love of God’ is now done for the love of money.” (Nietzsche, The Dawn of Days)
Thanks to Andy Nedlechev in Europe for digging this one up…
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