Chosen Quote by George Bancroft

The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption…

— Samuel Johnson

“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.”

— Ken Follett

Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But…

— Augustin Thierry

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…

— Oscar Wilde

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

— Moliere

“Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to…

— Ayn Rand

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with corpses, although…

— Élisée Reclus

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the…

— Hilaire Belloc

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more…

— Hannah More