Accumulation Quote by Benjamin Franklin

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less…

— Benjamin Franklin

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out…

— Benjamin Franklin

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth…

— Plutarch

“For many generations…they obeyed the laws and loved the divine to which they were akin…they reckoned that qualities of character were far more important…

— Plato

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“A cultural chasm between the giver and the given-to made many of the poorest unwilling to ask for help: if bread, clothing, boots, medical…

— Sarah Wise

“to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get…

— Victor Hugo

“By investing in their families and in their communities, not only did they have a better life, they were also able to do what…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises