Civilized Quote by Calvin Coolidge

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

— Ralph Raico

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live…

— John C. Calhoun

There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.

— Anonymous

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives

— Richard Paul Evans

Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and…

— Ross Garnaut

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

— Oscar Wilde

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould