François Mitterrand "Money corrupts"
François Mitterrand "Money corrupts"
François Mitterrand "Money corrupts"
The politician François MITTERRAND, First Secretary of the Socialist Party, speaks about his relationship to money, which he admits to having "a certain mistrust". Although his profession as a lawyer and his income as a writer and his parliamentary allowances ensured him a comfortable income, he never sought to earn any. If he recognizes that it is necessary, "the accumulation of money, the taste of possession that is always growing seems to me very formidable and ultimately very despicable". He also believes that "the century in which we live that has made the usury and interest of money the modern god is a lost society". Finally, he judges that "the immoderate taste of the capitalization of money is one of the causes of the destruction of all the values that make that man can progress".
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File : Policy money
Publication date : 30 September 1976
Reference:I21119267
Credits:Director : Héberlé, Jean Claude-Participant : Mitterrand, François