“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”
Adam Smith
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
Frantz Fanon
"Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society."
Samuel Johnson
"It would be no sin if statesmen learned enough of history to realize that no system which implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse."
William Dodd, US Ambassador to Germany, 1933
"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves."
Robert F. Kennedy
Stocks fluctuated again today ahead of the Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.
Gold and silver finished a little lower to unchanged.
The Dollar chopped sideways.
Wash-rinse-repeat.
Have a pleasant evening.
