Active Quote by Hilaire Belloc

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity…

— Thomas Hobbes

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

Men are always enslaved by material abundance and wealth, and the more they possess, the greedier they become.

— Aisha

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

— Antoine Rivarol

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless…

— Charles Dickens

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of…

— Rumi

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and…

— Giambattista Vico

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton