I have always believed, and still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When there's an opportunity knocking on your door, do not be afraid to answer it. By having the courage to take risks,… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates… — John Olver Copy Share Image
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects"… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“Ukiwaza kitu kwa dakika moja na sekunde nane – huu ni utafiti wangu tu – hicho kitu kitaanza kujiumba kwa ajili yako… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness. ... And we assume that if only… — Csikszentmihaly Copy Share Image
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why are you all wasting human labour and the world’s wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for… — Eden Phillpotts Copy Share Image
The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of… — Edward Blake Copy Share Image
Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily… — Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt,… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Work can sometimes be very tricky. It gives with one hand and takes away with the other. It gives you money and… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
“Wealth is not attain by the small investment that hits the jackpot,but rather by properly investing in the two biggest assets you… — Brian Gotta Copy Share Image
I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image