The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. – Alfred Marshall
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. – Alfred Marshall
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. – Alfred Marshall
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. – Jean Baudrillard