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“I believe that, in the event of a war for the defense of our nation and its liberties, there shall be a conscription of wealth as well as a conscription of men.”
Charles Coughlin (1891–1979) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast speech (November 11, 1934)
“Our ultimate goal is a cooperative commonwealth wherein Government will stifle, as much as possible, the greed and avarice of the private profit system and will bring about more equitable distribution of the wealth produced by the hands and minds of the people.”
Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me: “I don’t think billionaires should concentrate wealth while employing people who are sleeping in cars working a zillion hours to survive.” Next day: “That will be TEN PINOCCHIOS to Ocasio, ‘zillion’ is not a number and I found someone who sleeps in a tent, not a car.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born 1989) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter post, (22 January 2019)
“When workers make the decisions, you stop outsourcing jobs, you stop the wealth gap, you stop inequality.”
Richard D. Wolff (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art has come to be regarded as a form of amusement which can only be indulged in by men of great wealth....Thus art which is the soul of every democracy finds no place in the workaday existence”
Andrew MacLaren (1883–1975) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scottish Co-operator in July 1913
“Polls show 70 percent of Americans support Medicare-for-all, 74 percent support a wealth tax such as the one proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed 70 percent marginal tax rate finds comfortable majority support. But … socialism! Surely not...”
Krystal Ball (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Changing a country is not like flicking a switch. The world is now a more volatile place. This will take a while. But have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately. Have no doubt that we will rebuild Britain with wealth created in every community.”
Keir Starmer (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth is a wonderful ticket to freedom.”
Donatella Versace (born 1955) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Dal sesso allo stile, le frasi iconiche di Donatella Versace che “non perdonano” (May 02, 2023)
“The present distribution of world economic power, wealth and living standards is manifestly unjust. It derives from the long history of imperialist expansion and control of the third world. We seek to change this order and to substitute for it a New International Economic Order.”
Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since wealth is the property of God, humanity does not have autonomy in this ownership but through the specific path He has instituted in the Islamic Shari‘ah.”
Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 1943) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Retrieved from The Muslim 500 website on 7 August 2022.
“[W]ithout Commerce there is no wealth.”
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Commerce creates wealth, and it is the foundation of the great state. Armies are raised and paid for to win, or to protect the countries' trade, or commerce. Ships are constructed, colonies established, inventions encouraged, governments built up, or pulled down, for Commerce. Commerce cuts the way, and all professions, all arts follow.”
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Compare yourself, for wealth, status and health to those lower than you. For faith, science, and virtue, compare yourself to those who are higher than you.”
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kitab al-Akhlaq wa’l Siyar ; Trsltd by N. Tomiche under the title: Epitre Morale, Collection UNESCO, Beyrouth, 1961, p. 21.
“The birth of letters was witnessed on the Dark Continent, but centuries of intervening darkness have removed most of the traces of fabled lore, wealth and prowess of the ancient Egyptians, Carthaginians and Ethiopians.”
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character. Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character”
Frances Harper (1825–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy”
Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“together as a global community, we are recognizing the failures of the system. It is so clear. People are upset. People are seeing, like, ‘Wow, our governments are not set up to take care of us, even though we have all this wealth and even though people work so hard. We don’t have the infrastructure, whether it’s the health infrastructure or economic infrastructure, to truly be resilient.”
Favianna Rodriguez (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today, of course, aggression once again keeps the disadvantaged from creating wealth for themselves and their loved ones. Minimum wage laws exclude unskilled workers from the Job market, while increasing the prices they must pay for goods and services. Licensing laws squeeze small companies out of business. Sixty percent of all new Jobs in the United States.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we consider that resources will one day be mined from planets other than the earth, that matter and energy are totally interchangeable, and that basic chemical elements can be transmuted, we realize that resource seeds are so abundant that they do not impose practical limitations on the creation of wealth at all.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The strength of a society is measured not by the wealth of its most affluent members, but by how well its most vulnerable citizens are able to cope. The question we need to ask is whether everyone has the chance to lead a life of dignity.”
Sanna Marin (born 1985) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s New Year’s message, 31.12.2019, Finnish Government Communications Department, (31 December 2019)
“Those who fancy that collectedness results from the collecting of wordly goods remain in perpetual distraction, whilst those who are convinced that amassing wealth is the cause of distraction renounce all wordly goods.”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[L]eaving home is hard, and the of wealth makes it even harder.”
Jamelle Bouie (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.”
Richard Ebeling (born 1950) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Still Neither Left Nor Right”, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), (January 1, 2006)
“Those who make laws, appropriate wealth in order to secure power.”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taxes forcibly transfer wealth from producers to legislators, who justify their expropriations under cover of law.”
George H. Smith (1949–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There must be more rigorous enforcement of rules promoting transparency in the international banking and financial systems, especially more stringent KYC rules on customer identity, source of wealth, and even country of origin.”
Yemi Osinbajo (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman’s beauty lies in her piety and loyalty. When a man leaves the house, he leaves his trust, wealth, love and respect in her hands and if she opens that up to another man, then I’m sorry to say, I don’t consider that a woman but rather a non-woman”.”
Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These factors suggest, given the increasingly arid savanna ecology of the Greater Indus Valley after ca. 4000 B.C., that this continued preference for cattle was a deliberate cultural decision by the social groups in the area, and that cattle were objects of important cultural wealth.”
Jim G. Shaffer (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Another aspect o f this regime is the important status of cattle as cultural wealth.”
Jim G. Shaffer (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although the use of cattle as important cultural wealth declined in the first millennium B.C., their religious status remained high, or intensified, providing an im portant cultural link between the protohistoric and Early Historic Periods”
Jim G. Shaffer (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bizarrely, as blacks and other minorities are growing in power, wealth, and influence, the Left acts as if America is little better than apartheid South Africa.”
Rod Dreher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every place where there is no real tax system, such as Honduras or Afghanistan, there is no widespread wealth.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To pay for World War I... [t]he estate tax and the gift tax, which apply to wealth, were expanded and the income tax came to apply to a larger, but still minute, percentage of Americans.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[P]residents of companies have gone from apologizing when they had to lay off workers to boasting of the riches... obtained through mass firings. ...[I]nvestors ...owe their wealth ...to buying companies in deals that required destroying lives and careers”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So all of the things we were promised, most... haven't happened. There have been some good things. Airfares have fallen... There have been some benefits. It is not black and white, but my focus is on these areas where we now have massive transfers of wealth and income from those with less, to the politically connected few. Billions and billions of dollars being handed up the ladder.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[B]usiness has been regulated throughout history. ...[I]n the past four decades, we have forgotten the tried and tested (and therefore profoundly conservative) principles of business developed over thousands of years. ...[O]ur wealth... well being and... freedom are being diminished daily.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If... immortal, amoral and greed-driven people walked the earth, we would have to rewrite our laws governing property. ...[O]ur new class of immortals could just keep accumulating wealth and power forever. In time they would probably own every... asset on earth worth having. ...[That] immortal being is the modern corporation.”
David Cay Johnston (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not set your heart on wealth . . . Do not strain to seek increases, What you have, let it suffice you. If riches come to you by theft, They will not stay the night with you . . . They made themselves wings like geese, And flew away to the sky.”
Amenemope (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hindus are indisputably entitled to rank among the most ancient of existing nations, as well as among those most early and most rapidly civilized....ere yet the Pyramids looked down upon the Valley of the Nile... when Greece and Italy, these cradles of modern civilization, housed only the tenants of the wilderness, India was the seat of wealth and grandeur...”
Edward Thornton, 2nd Count of Cacilhas (1817–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In consequence, the civil services of many Third World nations operate as feudal baronies, exploiting those with whom they deal. In the absence of institutions or organized groups capable of restraining official venality, the employees and officials of these bureaucracies possess virtually untrammeled power for obtaining personal wealth.”
Neil H. Jacoby (1909–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the world is replete with blood and wealth, still man of God would not eat anything except licit thing.”
Mian Mir (1550–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people are contemptuous or engaged in bad mouthing others, wealth will not come their way”
Dada Bhagwan (1908–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In capitalist Britain, the factory appeared as a weapon of exploitation for profit. In the USSR, it was not only a means to collective wealth, but a tool consciously used to break past shackles.”
Anna Louise Strong (1885–1970) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From The Stalin Era, ASIN B0007JWF0W (1 January 1957), p. 51
“[T]his feedback loop has re-engineered our system cryptically and turned it into an engine for the concentration of wealth and power. ...It has installed amongst an unelected group of very powerful and wealthy people effective power over any attempt to change from the status quo.”
Bret Weinstein (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...many of the provisions in force today only benefit large corporations so that they can take away our wealth in abundance. The state must be free to promote, to monitor and regulate according to the interest of the majority.”
Pedro Castillo (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wealth won’t give you satisfaction, creating a good product that’s well received by users is what matters most.”
Ma Huateng (born 1971) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TC Disrupt Beijing: A Fireside Chat With Tencent CEO Pony Ma" in Techcrunch (31 October 2011)
“They’re trying to keep the populists of both left and right apart with cultural issues, and they’re doing it to insulate themselves from any combination or constituency that can come after their power, perks and wealth. They’re dividing and conquering.”
Thaddeus McCotter (born 1965) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exclusive — Thaddeus McCotter: Elites’ Greatest Fear Is Left-Right Populist Unity (27 July 2021)
“While as a nation we are resolved that we will not tolerate foreign exploitation we are equally determined that within our country there be no exploitation of any section of society by any other section or even by the state itself. The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take unfair advantage of the less fortunate.”
Soong Mei-ling (1898–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Grace of God forsakes the unrepentant man because he disdained God’s wealth of uprightness, forbearance, and longsuffering.”
Nectarios of Aegina (1846–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source