Wealth Quote by Tony Judt

The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would…

— Murray Rothbard

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

— Victor Hugo

“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates from the…

— Tony Judt

“A society with values, is a rich society.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to life, liberty,…

— Howard Zinn

Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.

— Guy Standing

“Building—or cultivating—the next and deeper layer of social welfare requires the ongoing posing of two questions: How can good conditions and prerequisites for human…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity. Thus most…

— Nic Marks

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”

— P.G. Wodehouse