Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

In pursuit of gain, men have begun to consider their violence an article to be bought and sold.

And a lot of men are turning this spiritual institution into commerce and they are using it for personal gains.

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be — and are ruined.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be - and are ruined

They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies.

The cause of all this was the pursuit of power driven by greed and ambition, leading in turn to the passions of the party rivalries thus established. The dominant men on each side in the various cities employed fine-sounding terms, claiming espousal either of democratic rights for all or of a conservative aristocracy, but the public whose interests they professed to serve were in fact their ultimate prize

Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.

When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen, — is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?

Cuando miro a la sociedad, veo que la gente convierte las artes en ganancias comerciales;