The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the…

“You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same.…

— E.M. Forster

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

“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

“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

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal pos- sessions and luxuries, should be evenly…

— George Orwell

“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 most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

— Carl Jung

In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived…

— Guy Debord

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

— Henry A. Wallace