Elites Quote by Corinne McLaughlin

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same…

— Jeremy Rifkin

In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches,…

— Erik Dammann

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

— Muhammad Yunus

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on…

— Ban Ki-moon

“How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?…

— Tony Judt

All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had.…

— Henry Paulson

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s…

— Noam Chomsky

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society…

— Joan Coxsedge

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to…

— Bill Gates

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation…

— Paul Ryan