Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.
Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.
Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.
We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.
For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
Inflation is repudiation.
Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
