Quote by Daniel Defoe

“It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but…

— Tom Clancy

“More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those…

— H. Spencer Lewis

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about…

— Philipp Meyer

“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh at the impulsiveness of the poor. They were not acting from their souls, but they were…

— Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There’s nothing the rich fear more than a poor person with ideas and charisma.”

— Alex Burrett

“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon…

— George Orwell

“There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they they have for…

— Anonymous

“The focus on the ‘problems’ of the rich was more profitable and less distressing than trying to tackle the insurmountable troubles of the poor.…

— Gabrielle Palmer