Civilized Quote by James Madison

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

— James Madison

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

— James Madison

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and…

— Gerrard Winstanley

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the…

— Aristotle

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

— T. Harv Eker

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and…

— James Madison

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that…

— Margaret Atwood

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of…

— James Madison

“No two societies create the same institutions; they will have distinct customs, different systems of property rights, and different ways of dividing a killed…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard—the men who live by force, yet count on those who live…

— Ayn Rand