Economics Quote by Martin Adams

“What is the ethical or philosophical justification for a basic income? A fundamental claim is that it is an instrument of social justice that…

— Guy Standing

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

— Ken Blackwell

“You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must…

— Adrian Rogers

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

— Anohni

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by…

— Hans F. Sennholz

“Wealth is not distributed by society: it is produced and traded by the people who create it. To distribute it, society would first have…

— Don Watkins

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason…

— Henry George

There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers…

— Henry George

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Do not earn wealth and lose people, for earning people is a way to earning wealth.

— Dr Al-Arifi

“There is nothing wrong with thinking of ways to acquire wealth, get richer, and move up in the world. We should always strive to…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor…

— John Ruskin