It's an engine of destruction when not properly used, it destroys individuals as it does nations.

It has destroyed you, for it has warped your soul!" "Go on," he laughed bitterly, "I like to hear you!" "No, you don't, Mr.Ryder, no you don't, for deep down in your heart you know that I am speaking the truth.

Money and the power it gives you, has dried up the well-springs of your heart." He affected to be highly amused at her words, but behind the mask of callous indifference the man suffered.

Her words seared him as with a red hot iron.

She went on: "In the barbaric ages they fought for possession, but they fought openly.