Cases Quote by Benjamin Franklin

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

— Tacitus

When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed…

— Motsi Mabuse

“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become…

— Abhijit Naskar

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

— Oscar Wilde

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as…

— William Petty

When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the…

— Motsi Mabuse