# Quote — Michael Lewis, Flash Boys

> The deep problem with the system was a kind of moral inertia. So long as it served the narrow self-interests of everyone inside it, no one on the inside would ever seek to change it, no matter how corrupt or sinister it became

- Author: [Michael Lewis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis.md)
- Book: [Flash Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/flash-boys.md)
- Page: 88
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis_(author)#Flash_Boys_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/flash-boys/the-deep-problem

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> He now suspected that every human being who knew how high-frequency traders made money was making too much money doing it to stop and explain what was going on.

p. 55 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/flash-boys/he-now-suspected.md)

> Thus the only Goldman Sachs employee arrested by the FBI in the aftermath of a financial crisis Goldman had done so much to fuel was the employee Goldman asked the FBI to arrest.

p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/flash-boys/thus-the-only.md)

> "Liquidity" was one of those words Wall Street people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease.

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/flash-boys/liquidity-was-one.md)