Harlots Quote by Harold Wilson

The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this…

— Vince Cable

It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to…

— Adam Smith

This life as a simple citizen and laborer has its benefits not only for the person himself but perhaps also for his country. After…

— David Ben-Gurion

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of…

— David Korten

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system…

— Gore Vidal

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

— Edmund A. Opitz

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits…

— Bono

“A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight…

— Edmund Burke

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

— Ayn Rand