It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which…

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In…

— George Orwell

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to…

— Ben Hecht

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that…

— Adam Davidson

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

— Muhammad Ali

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," Henry David Thoreau famously remarked. Conventional…

— Martin Adams

“Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the Malthusian constraints.…

— Gregory Clark

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could…

— John Maynard Keynes

We nonchalantly expect that next year's smartphone will be faster and better than this year's, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our…

— David Olusoga

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded,…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future,…

— Pierre Nora

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

— Herbert Read

“Imagine the American people united for the first time in a movement for fundamental change. Imagine society’s power taken away from the giant corporations,…

— Howard Zinn