Hope Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life. Quite the…

— Victor Hugo

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away,…

— Victor Hugo

“Wealth had not corrupted him. What he’d chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human experience, and…

— Dean Koontz

“Lotteries are how the rich steal from the poor!”

— Steven Magee

“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide.…

— Henry Adams

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives…

— Howard Zinn

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

“Some will be always strong, and some will be always weak; and though, if there is no God, no divine and fatherly source of…

— William Hurrell Mallock

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson