Amount Quote by Henry George

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our social model means economic growth all too often involves concentrating wealth produced by the many into the bank accounts of the few, without…

— Owen Jones

“Wealth is not distributed by society: it is produced and traded by the people who create it. To distribute it, society would first have…

— Don Watkins

“If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same level. A…

— Ludwig von Mises

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

— Mike Lowry

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

— Epictetus

“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks of people…

— J.D. Vance

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as…

— Noam Chomsky

We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones,…

— Cynthia Kauffman

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant

That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

— Margaret Thatcher