Counted

Famous quotes containing the word counted:

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“I will have never a noble,
No lineage counted great;
Fishers and choppers and ploughmen
Shall constitute a state.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)