Absence Quote by Frank Knight

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty…

— Ludwig von Mises

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

— Henry Ford

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And…

— Osho

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became…

— Eamon de Valera

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

— John Boyd Orr

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death…

— Joseph Stalin

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of…

— Henry Hazlitt

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

— Leo Tolstoy

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

— Eric Beinhocker

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in…

— John W. Gardner