Culture Quote by Muhammad Ali

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that…

— Adam Davidson

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," Henry David Thoreau famously remarked. Conventional…

— Martin Adams

“Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the Malthusian constraints.…

— Gregory Clark

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal pos- sessions and luxuries, should be evenly…

— George Orwell

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In…

— George Orwell

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could…

— John Maynard Keynes

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

— Oprah Winfrey

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

— 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

“wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state”

— socrates