Backwards Quote by Adam Smith

The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

— Horace

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain…

— Adam Smith

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than…

— Edmund Ruffin

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

— Mark Fisher

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

— James Mackintosh

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

Nowadays excessive work and pressure are status symbols. Time to oneself is sooner equated with unemployment and laziness, certainly in countries where the wealth…

— Rutger Bregman

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in…

— Mother Teresa