Accumulation Quote by Karl Marx

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does…

— Margaret Thatcher

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a…

— Aristotle

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

— Calvin Coolidge

“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.”

— Joan Robinson

“The bonds of dependence, far from loosening, have tightened again. But alongside force there is no longer authority, alongside obedience, no longer recognition, alongside…

— Julius Evola

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

— Austin O'Malley

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing…

— Matthew Henry