From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Inheritance and culture obscure people’s higher capacities.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.