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“A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) said by 1794 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking." But look here, lack of money and poverty have something to do with it too, as well as a profound disillusionment, and besides, it is sometimes a good way of ensuring the solitude you need, of concentrating more or less on whatever study you are immersed in.”
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of “child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of “cultural identity. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bulldog, National Citizens Coalition, February 1997.
“Quote, the viability of a postsingularity economy of scarcity is indicated by the transition from an indirection-layer-based economy using markers of exchange of goods and services to a tree-structured economy characterized by optimal allocation of productivity systems in accordance with iterated tit-for-tat prisoner’s dilemma. Money is a symptom of poverty and inefficiency. Unquote.”
Charles Stross (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that a child living deep in poverty whose parents don’t have enough money for food or heating, books or basic things like school trips can ever have the same opportunities for development as a more fortunate child is patently absurd. But because it leads to some difficult choices many politicians choose to ignore it, essentially promising to make you an omelette without breaking any eggs.”
Jo Cox (1974–2016) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jo Cox: Opportunity must knock in a fairer society (24 September 2014)
“The conservative response to all this remains predictable: You can’t solve complex social problems like child poverty by throwing money at them. Besides, government antipoverty programs only foster dependence and create bloated bureaucracies without solving the problem. It matters little that the success of American social programs proves this claim to be flat-out false.”
Rajan Menon (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I became a Socialist, as many others did in those days, on grounds of morals and decency and aesthetic sensibility. I wanted to do the decent thing by my fellow-men. I could not see why every human being should not have as good a chance in life as I, and I hated the ugliness both of poverty and of the money-grubbing way of life that I saw around me.”
G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: British Labour Movement-Retrospect and Prospect, Ralph Fox Memorial Lecture, April 1951, Fabian Special, No. 8 (1952), quoted in G. D. H. Cole, Early Pamphlets and Assessment, Volume 1 (2011), p. 56
“I really don't believe that money should be wasted, not in a country like ours where we are told that so many live below the poverty line.”
Remi Sonaiya (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The developed world needs to feel that these huge levels of poverty (are) a threat to their own security. When their interests are at risk, money can be found.”
Graça Machel (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll keep saying it, keeping millions of ppl in poverty is a choice this country makes every day. There is enough money for ppl not to be evicted from their homes, there is enough for ppl not to go hungry, there is enough for ppl to avoid jail bc of a parking ticket. It's absurd.”
Clint Smith (writer) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aug 13, 2019 On Twitter
“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
Javier Milei (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do not use your time productively or to make money, you are in a close relationship with poverty. So, to improve our economic lot as a people, we need to invest our time in productive activities that can yield economic returns.”
Amina Ahmed El-Imam (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parish committees should allocate funds to individuals who are actively involved in their SACCOs, those living below the poverty line, and those who can effectively use the money to improve their lives, as outlined in the guidelines. I have received complaints that some PDM beneficiaries have not received the funds they applied for, despite meeting the criteria.”
Irene Linda Mugisha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the fund to be successful in alleviating poverty, the respective individuals benefiting from PDM must first change their mindset from thinking the money is a gift from the government.”
Grace Kwiyucwiny (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, visited this city on his first official mission on taking office, he provided a personal donation of 100,000 US dollars of seed money to help launch in 2008 what is today known as the Moonbeam Youth Training Centre – a centre for young people without the resources or skills to lift themselves out of poverty.”
Anna Tibaijuka (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am sure that we should not be elitist. But the idea that because those who are in power now are not doing a good job, they can be replaced by anyone else because they are all the same, is a dangerous idea for the construction of a society. The idea that money is seen as a symbol of sin, that any step away from poverty or simplicity is a step away from purity, is a very dangerous idea.”
Giovanni Floris (born 1967) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Che tempo che fa (March 23, 2013)
“We are sitting at top some of the biggest M&A transactions in Australia at the moment. And I now have a panel of 15 of Australia's most famous bankers. As well as running their own banks they do deals for us and the money that we make on those deals, sometimes millions of millions of dollars goes to our work with people in poverty.”
Audette Exel (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are a capitalist nation — but majority of our people are in so much poverty. And so here, Money is King, the media, the journalism press have to balance their reporting — they have the duty to report the truth.”
Loida Nicolas Lewis (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money can't buy poverty.”
Marty Feldman (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Senator Obama said that he wants to spread the wealth and he wants government to take your money and decide how to best to redistribute it according to his priorities. Joe suggested that sounded a little bit like socialism. Whatever you call it, I call it bad medicine for an ailing economy and it's what Barack Obama will do to those who want to create jobs.”
Sarah Palin (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth really is a never-ending process. So is running money. You can't just walk away and ask about the meaning of life.”
Andy Kessler (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for the life of money-making, it is one of constraint, and wealth is manifestly not the good of which we are in search, for it is only useful as a means to something else, and for this reason there is less to be said for it than for the ends mentioned before, which are, at any rate, desired for their own sakes. (Bk. 1, Chapter III)”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is a great place and stocked with wealth and beauty, and there is no limit to the rewards that may be offered. Such an one who would refuse a million of money may sell his honour for an empire or the love of a woman.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My fingers will not type the words "her money became a burden to her" but I do think that her wealth was like a lazy servant — better than nothing but a source of unremitting annoyance because it never filled her most urgent needs.”
Quentin Crisp (1908–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.”
Adam Smith (1723–1790) said by 1790 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness....We are monkeys with money and guns.”
Tom Waits (born 1949) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008
“Everything that’s miserable in the world,” Nick the dwarf once said to me, “is because of beauty.” “Not truth or goodness?” I’d asked. “Oh, they help. But beauty is the culprit, the real principle of evil.” “Not wealth?” “Money is beautiful.”
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”
Stephen Harper (born 1959) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Star, January 30, 2007.
“It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Episode from a Practice or A Doctor's Visit (1898)
“Neither the Government nor the local authorities make any wealth or have any money of their own. If we want them to spend more and more we have to pay. The remedy is in our hands. Stop running to them asking them to do this, that and everything under the sun - and demand instead that they stop doing and spending so much.”
Jo Grimond (1913–1993) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: February 1957, quoted in Michael McManus Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire (Birlinn, 2001) p. 120.
“It is not money the Great Asymmetry accrues, nor energy, nor stuff. The origin of economic wealth begins in opportunities.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.”
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Monetary inflation became a thing for the first time since Roman days — a much easier trick with printed paper banknotes than with silver coins — but the effect was the same: the evaporation of “wealth” (which is what money supposedly represents).”
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the last thirty years, there has been a massive redistribution of wealth. Unfortunately, it's gone in the wrong direction. ... All that money that has gone from the middle class to the top 1%, I think it should start coming back to the people who need it the most.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Late Night with Seth Meyers, (2 June 2015)
“Strange! Wealth estranges us all. It is all very strange, the money psychology! When you have not got any, you will pant to get some! When you get some, you grow jealous of others who have more, and feel conceited among those who have less!”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do not have the capacity for happiness with a little money, great wealth will not bring it to you.”
William Feather (1889–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no fixed road to wealth, and money has no permanent master.”
Sima Qian (145–86 BC) said by 86 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neoliberalism is an ideology that reduces all values to money values. The worth of a thing is the price of the thing. The worth of a person is the wealth of the person. Neoliberalism tells you that you are valuable exclusively in terms of your activity in the marketplace.”
William Deresiewicz (born 1964) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market," Harper's, September 2015, p. 26
“Exactly what useful work did those stockbrokers do to gain their enormous wealth, other than to exploit the people who work in industry, to take their money away and to make no useful contribution to society? Does the hon. Gentleman think that the working people of London are so stupid as not to realise that stockbrokers are parasites?”
Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Question in the House of Commons (12 July 1988).
“Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”
Alanis Obomsawin (born 1932) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole in Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays (1972) edited by Ralph Osborne, p. 43. In the article "When the Last Tree Is Cut Dow…
“You do not need to be a millionaire to feel successful or be successful. Financial wealth is only one of many possible indicators of success. However, to achieve your dreams and life goals you’re going to need money. And making it requires financial planning and goalsetting. I do not know of any successful person who has been able to simply ignore their finances.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prior to World War II, most socialists and socialist parties of Europe held strong anti-Semitic opinions and railed against the capitalistic middle class and wealthy, especially money-lending Jews who engaged in usury. Their schemes called for wealth-confiscation and redistribution to create a truly equal society.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth around” to people who don’t have my . I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.”
Robert A. Hall (1946–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I need the saint of healing, I need the saint of health — I shot the saint of money, beat up the saint of wealth”
Joseph Arthur (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source