Abundance Quote by Oliver DeMille

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty…

— Martin Luther

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there…

— John Stuart Mill

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions…

— Earl Browder

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

— Frank Herbert

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

— Eric Beinhocker

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of…

— Robert Trout

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and…

— Aldous Huxley