Cold Quote by Jacob Rees-Mogg

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

— John Lyly

“Within this stable and secure environment people had the ability and the incentive to pursue their own economic interests.”

— Edward A. Hudson

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

— Herman Melville

“At a certain level of wealth, you care more about things like the environment and what's going to happen to later generations than preserving…

— Robert Frank

“unless you consider it just for the worst sort of people to have the best living conditions, or unless you're prepared to call a…

— Thomas More

“Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.”

— John Meade Falkner

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

— Roald Amundsen

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire

“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain…

— Eugene Linden

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the…

— Pope Francis

“Only when we get sufficiently rich can we afford the relative luxury of caring about the environment.”

— Bjorn Lomborg

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of…

— Edmund Burke