Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

The problem of increasing inflation could be solved, if the modern mentality did not put up insurmountable resistance against any attempt to...

The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own. Escolios a un...

In the modern world it is not contrary ideas that confront each other but mere candidates for the possession of the same goods. Escolios a u...

Socialism makes use of greed and misery; capitalism makes use of greed and the vices. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 392

The economic inflation at the end of this century is a moral phenomenon. The result, and at the same time the punishment, of egalitarian gre...

Natural disasters devastate a region less effectively than the alliance of greed and technology. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

Victorious revolutions have been outbursts of greed. Only defeated revolutions tend to be insurrections of the oppressed. Escolios a un Text...

What the economist calls the “inflation of costs” is an outbreak of greed. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 335

The carelessness with which contemporary humanity is squandering its goods appears to indicate that it does not expect to have descendants. ...

To liberate man is to subject him to greed and sex. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 332

The only man who should speak of wealth or power is one who did not extend his hand when they were within his reach. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Whoever who does not agitate without rest in order to satisfy his greed always feels a little guilty in modern society. Escolios a un Texto ...

Everything can be sacrificed to the misery of the people. Nothing should be sacrificed to its greed. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Artificially fomenting greed, in order to become rich by satisfying it, is the unforgiveable sin of capitalism. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...

Modern society only respects science as an inexhaustible provider of what it covets. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 234

Let us not attribute to the intellect the catastrophes caused by the covetousness that blinds us. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...

It would be easier to resolve modern problems, if, for example, it were possible to sustain the Utopian fantasy that what causes the multipl...

The upper class in society is the class for which economic activity is a means, the middle class that for which it is an end. The bourgeois...

The businessman’s greed surprises me less than the seriousness with which he satisfies it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 106