Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.