Economic Quote by Georgia Harkness

It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in…

— Pope John Paul II

“(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)”

— Michael J. Sandel

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

— Benjamin Franklin

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

— Juan Rulfo

“Some needs superseded our own wellbeing, and we let ourselves be destroyed by greed and results of our own careless mistakes. We pretend not…

— Gayendra Abeywardane

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It…

— Albert Einstein

“motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

— Robert Anton Wilson

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford