Artist-life Quote by Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

— Walt Whitman

“Some are professors and others are possessors.”

— Lawrence Kennedy

“...no one can safely rely upon the higher intellectual pursuits as a protection from money-anxieties.”

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be”

— Og Mandino

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,…

— Mark Lilla

“Private and corporate foundations, he said, must cease “the mindless subsidizing of colleges and universities whose departments of politics, economics and history are hostile…

— Jane Mayer

“People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs.”

— Imam Ali bin abi Taleb

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“When there is greed within; a person shall fall into societal influence.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a living or…

— Napoleon Hill

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd