"When society reaches a stage where property confers rank, where wealth becomes the only source of..."

“When society reaches a stage where property confers rank, where wealth becomes the only source of virtue, passion the sole bond between man and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion…then we are in the Kali Yuga—the Dark Age.”

- Vishnu Purana, Book 4, chapter 24. (via vandrare)