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“Adam came from great power and great wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been worthy, [he would] not [have tasted] death. (85)”
Jesus (6 BC–33) said by 33 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It wasn’t hard for people to see the Titanic as a metaphor for Western civilization’s obsessions with speed, wealth, and conquest at the expense of contemplation, sharing and the well-being of one’s neighbor.”
Steve Turner (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature lies disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,— Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart; Yet that slackened grasp doth hold Store of pure and genuine gold; Quick thou comest, strong and free, Type of all the wealth to be,— Goldenrod!”
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Goldenrod; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 326.
“The seal and guerdon of wealth untold We clasp in the wild marsh marigold.”
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nature's Coinage; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 495.
“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The road ahead bears many challenges and now more than ever do the people of our community need a limited government that allows the people to do what they do best … to build their own wealth.”
Robert Agresta (born 1983) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scribd:Robert Agresta Inauguration speech Quoted in Mayor & Council Meeting of January 2009.
“The progress of the nation in wealth and refinement, however, naturally brought with it an increase in the number of crimes, as the old definition of offences became inadequate.”
Edward Jenks (1861–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Does the functioning of the world economy tend to concentrate wealth and power, or does it tend to diffuse it?”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.”
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Mercantilism is based upon the idea that a nation's wealth and security depend upon its ability to regulate and control its external trade at the expense of others.)”
Peter Dicken (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.”
David McNally (professor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...none but those who feel it, can tell the trials and sufferings of those who, for the cause of Freedom-the cause of Truth-have to sacrifice home, wealth, friends, all that makes life desirable, and become strangers and wanderers in foreign lands.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is more of a mystery to the origin of the pin factory that Adam Smith (1776) discusses in his Wealth of Nations than is generally realized.”
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.”
Ellen Kushner (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.”
Alberto Manguel (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the factory of the new millennium, the new working class, where industrious drones keep track of other people's wealth as it accumulates. Our collars may be white, but our outlooks are gray and our paycheques ar most definitely lacking in green.”
“The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.”
Kenneth Waltz (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.”
Richard Weaver (1910–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the increase of wealth the mania of covetousness increases.”
John Cassian (360–435) said by 435 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beggening their voyage with salty deep, By sweet water they returned, Big merchants trade not with Gold but with Pearls and Gemstones...such wealth, these Sailors form distant lands had brought.”
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wealthy are different than you and I: they have many more ways of having their wealth stripped away.”
William J. Bernstein (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there was never any difference between the value of commodities someone desired to sell and buy on the market, then no-one would ever desire to accumulate wealth. But an essential feature of capitalism is the existence of a group of agents with precisely that intention.”
Steve Keen (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Other great sources of wealth are found in financial and speculative operations, often of distinctly anti-social tendency and possible only through the defective organization of our economy.”
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obviously it can be a mistake to assign brilliance in proportion to wealth. We cannot see a persons potential, only his or her results, so we often misjudge people by thinking that the results must reflect the person. The normal accident theory of life shows not that the connection between actions and rewards is random but that random influences are as important as our qualities and actions.”
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The incentives that people need to work and to find meaning in their lives should be found beyond material wealth and power.”
Didier Sornette (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The love of people goes far beyond liberty, rights, equality, and justice. It is something positive, seeks the fullest possible self-realization; it contemplates happiness, overflows all differences, and creates the kind of wealth that can be produced only by people who enjoy their common participation in a community.”
Elmer Eric Schattschneider (1892–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Internet use is diffusing fast, but this diffusion follows a spatial pattern that fragments its geography according to wealth, technology, and power: it is the new geography of development.”
Manuel Castells (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before one scoffs at national pride and the fatherland, at wealth and good manners, love of one's country, family, and traditions, one must have arrived at a proper evaluation of one's country, have had enough to eat, and have received a good education. Then one can look on from afar and make wisecracks. But I have no sense of humor and not enough courage to be cynical.”
Albert Memmi (1920–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of our boasted wealth, wonderful inventions and incalculable mechanical power will prove to be an unstable foundation if we continue to dwell together in strife—individual against individual, class against class, nation against nation.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If individuals exercise the freedom to seek their own gain through competitive struggle and to acquire unlimited wealth and property, the result for most of the population will be bondage to destitution and insecurity.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The major vehicle of for the transition to the capitalist mode of production was the textile industry of eighteenth - century England. In cloth production mercantile wealth was visibly transformed into capital, as it acquired the dual function of purchasing machines and raw materials, on the one hand, and buying human energy to power their operation on the other.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never thought that a person's worth came from birth or wealth, and much later when I was queen, and then in exile, I had ample proof of it.”
Farah Pahlavi (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All great men have universally deplored that nation wherein "wealth accumulates and men decay." They are, of course, right; but until society manifests some desire to know the extent of the misery in which men decay—not until then may we hope for anything more than a petty individual dealing with a question mainly social.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vastness and the free sweep of our concentrated wealth on the one side, the independence, intelligence, moral vigor, and political power of the common people on the other side, promise a long-drawn grapple of contesting forces which may well make the heart of every American patriot sink within him.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The landed wealth of the Church alone sufficed to make it a power of the highest rank in the feudal system of the Middle Ages, in which all power finally rested on the possession of the land. Bishops and abbots became feudal dignitaries, sometimes almost sovereign princes in their own domains, and always with a potent voice in the government of their nations.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can build any number of walls and close our doors in the vain effort to feel secure in our wealth, at the expense of those left outside. It will not be that way for ever. The ‘day of the Lord,’ as described by the prophets, will destroy the barriers created between nations and replace the arrogance of the few with the solidarity of many.”
Pope Francis (1936–2025) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message of the Holy Father Francis for the Third World Day of the Poor" (13 June 2019)
“The principle of mutual inter-imperialist assistance whereby American, British, French and West German monopoly capital extends joint control over the wealth of the non-liberated zones of Africa, Latin America and Asia, finds concrete expression in the formation of interlocked international financial institutions and bodies of credit.”
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”
Robert Heller (1932–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aim of achieving an equal distribution of political power requires a restriction on the inequalities of wealth and income.”
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taxation and Democratic Values", The New Republic (November 1, 1974)
“In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.”
Kiran Desai (born 1971) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiran Desai on the Costs Of Literary Celebrity (April 21, 2007) by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal
“Tensions in the relations between the Congo and Belgium are being exacerbated only by the groups interested in exploiting the Congo’s wealth and who egg the authorities on to extend the colonial regime, as well as by some officials who are pursuing their private interests.”
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fighters for National Liberation: Political Profiles V.G. Khorosebal , Central Books Ltd, 1984, , p 141. Lumumba on September 6 in Luluabourg 1959.
“A country’s wealth comes not from taxes but from production.”
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have not put our trust in Kings; let us not put it in natural resources, but grasp the truth that exhaustless wealth lies in the latent and as yet undeveloped capacities of individuals, of corporations, of States.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 164; ; Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003) Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 80
“There is no justice, and I want you to hear this clearly, when the top one-tenth of 1 percent -- not 1 percent, the top one-tenth of 1 percent -- today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. And in your hearts, you will have to determine the morality of that, and the justice of that.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our bill does what the American people want by substantially increasing the estate tax on the wealthiest families in this country and dramatically reducing wealth inequality. From a moral, economic, and political perspective our nation will not thrive when so few have so much and so many have so little.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet from 18 Mar 2021