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“The A B C of any science of wealth production is the necessity of co-ordination and concert of effort; whereas competition, conflict, and endless cross-purposes were the sum and substance of the economic methods set forth by these writers.”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would it not have startled the old economists to hear that the secret of the most efficient system of wealth production was conformity on a national scale to the ethical idea of equal treatment for all embodied by Jesus Christ in the golden rule?”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When war reached out its hand, what did wealth and power matter? A fool with a gun could take them away. A fool with a gun had just taken them away.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then he grinned. “But it is said that hunger teaches many things. My friend, a wealth of wisdom awaits us on this journey.”
Stephen R. Donaldson (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Certainly much nonsense passes for culture in the United States, including an obsession with celebrities of all kinds. But that is scarcely representative of the vast wealth of extraordinary art, literature, and music produced by Americans in the almost two and a half centuries of the country’s existence.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The goal towards which the advance will probably be made at an accelerated pace, is that in the direction of which the legislation of the last quarter of a century has been tending—the intervention, in other words, of the State on behalf of the weak against the strong, in the interests of labour against capital, of want and suffering against luxury and wealth.”
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Revolution of 1884’, The Fortnightly Review, No. CCXVII, New Series (1 January 1885), quoted in T. H. S. Escott (ed.), The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXVII, New Series (1 January – 1 June 1885), p. 9
“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage. Other persons who accept the status of slave do so as a means of attaining high rank, or power, or wealth, as is the case with the Mameluke Turks in the East and with those Franks and Galicians who enter the service of the state [in Spain].”
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) said by 1406 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bernard Lewis, Race and Color in Islam, Harper and Row, 1970, quote on page 38. The brackets are displayed by Lewis.
“It is quite impossible to advocate both the abolition of great inequalities of wealth and the acceptance of a one-quarter public sector and three-quarters private sector arrangement. A mixed economy there will undoubtedly be, certainly for many decades and perhaps permanently, but it will need to be mixed in very different proportions from this.”
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pursuit of Progress (Heinemann, 1953), p. 96
“Few words in our language have been more sadly debased than the name 'Radical'. Once it could strike terror into the ranks of wealth and privilege. Now it has been purloined even by the palest and pinkest critics of current orthodoxy. A Radical nowadays may merely be one who can be distinguished by his respectability from a Socialist.”
Michael Foot (1913–2010) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The Chartist: William Lovett', lecture delivered in Penzance (8 August 1977), quoted in Michael Foot, Loyalists and Loners (1986), p. 248
“When I started to encounter Marxism at 16, the elementary truths of the surplus value theory and more than anything else, the logical argument that he produced that labour was the source of all wealth, gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.”
Neil Kinnock (born 1942) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Sam Aaronovitch for Marxism Today (June 1983)
“We Conservatives have always passed our values from generation to generation. I believe that personal prosperity should follow the same course. I want to see wealth cascading down the generations. We do not see each generation starting out anew, with the past cut off and the future ignored.”
John Major (born 1943) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First speech as leader at the Conservative Party conference (1991)
“Contentment is the only real wealth”
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“corporate globalization is really about an aggressive privatization of the water, biodiversity, and food systems of the Earth, when these communities declare sovereignty and act on that sovereignty, they have developed a powerful response to globalization. Living democracy then is the democracy that is custodian of the living wealth on which people depend.”
Vandana Shiva (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“U.S. prostitution can be understood in the context of the cultural normalization of prostitution as a glamorous and wealth-producing “job” for girls who lack emotional support, education, and employment opportunities. The sexual exploitation of children and women in prostitution is often indistinguishable from incest, intimate partner violence, and rape.”
Melissa Farley (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise.”
Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Lord Mayor's Banquet at Guildhall (11 November 1963), quoted in The Times (12 November 1963), p. 12
“We Americans" face a substantive problem of national identity epitomized by the subject of this sentence. Are we a "we," one people or several? If we are a "we," what distinguishes us from the "thems" who are not us? Race, religion, ethnicity, values, culture, wealth, politics, or what?”
Samuel P. Huntington (1927–2008) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (2004), p. 9
“2591. If I leave thee a moderate Fortune, as my Father left me, and thou provest wise and virtuous, it will be sufficient. It's none of the least of God's Favours, that Wealth comes not trolling in upon us ; for many of us should have been worse, if our Estates had been better.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1751 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1751) : Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.
“1125. Command your Wealth, else that will command you.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1734 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
“In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is much more difficult to recede from a scale of expenditure once adopted than it is to extend the accustomed scale in response to an accession of wealth.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.”
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despite what we are suffering through, we haven't heard from our political partners with any support. They are not partners in facing the crisis, but they are partners in spending the wealth of Iraq.”
Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Iraq's other political parties, as quoted in "Sunni Militants Advance Toward Large Iraqi Dam" (June 2014), The New York Times.
“There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”
John Armstrong (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: John Armstrong (poet) (attributed)
“I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it.”
Herman Wouk (1915–2019) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time (September 5, 1955).
“Most people won’t have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who’s now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.”
Michael Bloomberg (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Samuel Kercheval (1816)
“Only lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) said by 1826 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sit here in the upper circle surrounded by copper and gold, and smile with joy under my fly net as all the light, glory and quivering brightness passes slowly and freely before my eyes. Nothing happier than this. I shout and laugh at my immense wealth, all free and without responsibility. Who could steal this from me? No one. Oh that I could roll some up— as at present.”
Arthur Streeton (1867–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Mollie Hetherington, Famous Australians (1983), p. 252.
“It is human love, not that of a god, which is glorified in the Song, and that with a wealth of detail, which rules out an allegorical interpretation.”
Robert Gordis (1908–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.”
Luboš Motl (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the pursuit of wealth and development, education and opportunities, security and peace, and freedom and health, not a single Filipino or corner of the Philippines should be left behind.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Avendano, Christine O. "'We're running under Partido Pilipinas", Philippine Daily Inquirer, 18 September 2015, p. A15.
“We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.”
S. I. Hayakawa (1906–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We select our furniture to serve as visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our residences on the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade in perfectly good cars for later models, not always to get better transportation, but to give evidence to the community that we can afford it.2”
S. I. Hayakawa (1906–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d sign him right here and now, and I’d go wherever it takes to land a player like that, he’s a "Crack" (a "match changing" player) player and I’m a fan of everything that he does, and what’s more now is the prefect time to sign him as he’s got a wealth of experience and has reached full maturity.”
Raúl González (born 1977) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ottmar Hitzfeld 2007
“A pious mind / Places honor above wealth - Rembrandt, Amsterdam 1634”
Rembrandt (1606–1669) said by 1669 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”
Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good thoughts his only friends, His wealth a well-spent age, The earth his sober inn And quiet pilgrimage.”
Thomas Campion (1567–1620) said by 1620 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.”
Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moral: When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.”
George Ade (1866–1944) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Through Train", Knocking the Neighbors (1912)
“People who chase after ever greater wealth without taking the time to enjoy it are like hungry people who are forever cooking but never sit down to eat.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his Estate faster than he gott it; he replyed, They cannot take more delight in the spending of it than I did in the getting of it.”
John Aubrey (1626–1697) said by 1697 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O almighty Lord! I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor I have any desire to enjoy beautiful women; neither do I want any number of followers of Mine. What I want only is that I may have Your causeless devotional service in my life – birth after birth.”
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) said by 1534 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...”
James Clavell (1921–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation’s institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: May 8, 2005, at the First Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Commerce – Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza Palestine.
“The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 27, 1999, Crans Montana Forum, Switzerland.
“Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.”
Ted Malloch (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source