Hope Quote by Alfred Marshall

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

— Alfred Marshall

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

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

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

— Mohsin Hamid

Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift…

— Charles M. Schwab

“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government…

— Tony Judt

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…

— Frantz Fanon