Roger

“game hunting was flourishing; and, dining at Muthaiga Club, I was offered trout freshly caught in the mountains, together with some last bottles of a particularly fragrant Rhine wine. Not since that last bright summer in Paris in 1939, when the wealthy of the world came flocking to spend their money lest they should not visit Paris again, had I seen women so well groomed, wearing so many lush furs. Baboon pelts and leopard skins were particularly popular. Great log fires burned in the grates of the club chimney places, though the nights were scarcely sharp. The men wore dinner-jackets or dress uniform. The conversation tended to hunting. In the day one had golf at Brackenridge, or swimming or riding or fooling round the game reserves where giraffe still roam haphazardly. Normally one looked in at a roadhouse for an apéritif around eight in the evening, and after dinner perhaps went down to Torr’s to dance. They say the altitude at Nairobi makes people slightly crazy, but after the desert I found it all delightful, as though the world were enjoying one long holiday. As”
― Alan Moorehead, Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-43

“Proudhon was an anti-dogmatist: ‘For God’s sake,’ he wrote, ‘after we have demolished all the [religious] dogmatism a priori, let us not of all things attempt to instil another kind of dogma into the people … let us not make ourselves the leaders of a new intolerance.’ Marx hated this line.”
― Paul Johnson, Intellectuals: A fascinating examination of whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.”
― Lester Thurow

“(it seems only a matter of time before Apple launches its own credit card).”
― Rana Foroohar, Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street