Acquire Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

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

— Karl Marx

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

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

— Brenda Ueland

“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

We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted!…

— Pope Francis

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not.…

— Alan Greenspan

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking…

— John Stossel

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or…

— Lawrence Wright

We are corrupted by prosperity

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended…

— Walter Raleigh