Profits, like sausages – Alvin Toffler

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other." Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry

"The few who could understand the system (checks, money, credits) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favours, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests." Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild