Scrooge McDuck
From Liberpedia
- I've always looked at the ducks as caricatured human beings. In rereading the stories, I realized that I had gotten kind of deep in some of them: there was philosophy in there that I hadn't realized I was putting in. It was an added feature that went along with the stories. I think a lot of the philosophy in my stories is conservative—conservative in the sense that I feel our civilization peaked around 1910. Since then we've been going downhill. Much of the older culture had basic qualities that the new stuff we keep hatching can never match.
- Look at the magnificent cathedrals and palaces that were built. Nobody can build that sort of thing nowadays. Also, I believe that we should preserve many old ideals and methods of working: honor, honesty, allowing other people to believe in their own ideas, not trying to force everyone into one form. The thing I have against the present political system is that it tries to make everybody exactly alike. We should have a million different patterns.
- They say that wealthy people like the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers are sinful because they accumulated fortunes by exploiting the poor. I feel that everybody should be able to rise as high as they can or want to, provided they don't kill anybody or actually oppress other people on the way up. A little exploitation is something you come by in nature. We see it in the pecking order of animals—everybody has to be exploited or to exploit someone else to a certain extent. I don't resent those things.
- Carl Barks, [1]
https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofscr00donr https://www.zipcomic.com/walt-disney-uncle-scrooge-and-donald-duck-the-don-rosa-library
- https://view-comic.com/the-complete-carl-barks-disney-library-tpb-16-part-2/
- https://onemillioncomics.com/the-complete-carl-barks-disney-library-tpb-16-part-2/
- https://read-comic.com/uncle-scrooge-1953-issue-294/
- https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Complete-Carl-Barks-Disney-Library/TPB-27-Part-2?id=208679
http://alexmagnus.free.fr/Picsou/68%20-%20The%20Life%20and%20Times%20of%20Scrooge%20McDuck%203B%20-%20The%20Cowboy%20Captain%20Of%20The%20Cutty%20Sark.pdf http://alexmagnus.free.fr/Picsou/61%20-%20A%20Little%20Something%20Special.pdf