Wealth Quotes - Page 37

• All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Poverty

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, 1777.

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• What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Miracle, Independence

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• It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Together, Library

  Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova, December 25, 1888.

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• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  Karl Marx

  Substance, Form, Values

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook II, The Chapter on Money, p. 141, 1857-1858.

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• We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Mask, Deals

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Book, May, Masterpiece

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”

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• The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Income, Employment, Arbitrary

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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• I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged

  Azim Premji

  Believe, Trying, World

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• The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

  Thomas Szasz

  Wise, Self, Treats

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

  Albert J. Nock

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 59), 1935.

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• Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

  A. J. Muste

  Fashion, Real, Struggle

  "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

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• We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

  Josiah Strong

  Europe, Race, Development

  Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

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• When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Chris Hayes Compares Climate Change To The Struggle To End Slavery". Now with Alex Wagner, www.newsbusters.org. October 19, 2012.

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• Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

  Ottmar Edenhofer

  Change, Environmental, Climate

  "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

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• The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly "veneration of wealth " are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

  Bill Moyers

  Father, Office, Constitution

  "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers. Introduction, p. 3, 2008.

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• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Grieving, Egypt

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• There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

  James Branch Cabell

  Littles, Captains, Industry

  James Branch Cabell (1927). “The cream of the jest”

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• China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

  Sun Yat-sen

  War, Class, Suffering

  "Capital and the State". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1924.

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• Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

  Austin O'Malley

  Flow, Tides

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• I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

  George Lucas

  Children, Responsibility, Emotional

  "George Lucas' 2010 Philanthropy Pledge". George Lucas' Giving Pledge letter, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.

  Anne Lamott

  Mean, Writing, Creativity

  "Time Lost and Found". www.sunset.com.

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• The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

  Samuel Smiles

  Generosity, Library, Use

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.327

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• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  Edgar Guest

  Way, Wasting Time, Imagine

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Thirty, Dangerous

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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