“A budget is a moral document.”
“What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?”
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
“Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance.”
“They document themselves in fear that they cannot exsist unless they are documented.”
“Budget the luxuries first.”