Labor Quote by Josiah Warren

“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless;…

— Josiah Warren

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in…

— Susan George

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

— Angela Carter

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no real wealth but the labor of people. Were the mountains of gold and silver, the world would not be one grain…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The market was king, that much was clear. Share worth had replaced human worth. And it wasn’t so much a question of what that…

— Arne Dahl

“The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour.”

— Oscar Wilde