Evil Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an…

— Bill Mollison

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others…

— Richard J. Foster

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.”

— Frances Burney

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts…

— John Ruskin

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

— James Russell Lowell

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and…

— P. T. Barnum

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato