Coal Quote by Lawrence Wright

“We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is…

— Martin Adams

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

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not…

— Ronald Reagan

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a…

— Mao Zedong

The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy…

— Gilbert F. White

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

— Calvin Coolidge

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

— Karl Marx

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the…

— Lee R. Raymond

The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism…

— Vladimir Lenin

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

— Michael Pare

We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting,…

— Carroll Quigley