Aloof Quote by Lucy Parsons

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

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

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men are always enslaved by material abundance and wealth, and the more they possess, the greedier they become.

— Aisha

“When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.”

— Amin Maalouf

“If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud;…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If a man…

— Ayn Rand

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of association often…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a…

— Anonymous

“To organize society in such a manner that every individual, man or woman, should find, upon entering life, approximately equal means for the development…

— Mikhail Bakunin