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Quotes About Wealth

lazy and content to lead an idle life, he is immoral, because upon him depend hundreds. If he gets riches, hundreds of others will be thereby supported.
~ Vivekananda
A householder who does not struggle to get wealth is immoral. If
~ Vivekananda
The householder is the centre of life and society. It is a worship for him to acquire and spend wealth nobly
~ Vivekananda
for the householder who struggles to become rich by good means and for good purposes is doing practically the same thing for the attainment of salvation as the anchorite does in his cell when he is praying;
~ Vivekananda
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
~ Unknown
America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.
~ Unknown
Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.
~ Unknown
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
~ Unknown
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
~ Unknown
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
~ Vladimir Lenin
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~ Voltaire
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
~ Voltaire
The embarrassment of riches.
~ Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
~ Voltaire
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
~ Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
~ Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.
~ Voltaire
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
~ Voltaire
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
~ Voltaire
Good-natured satirists often remark that "the best way to cure an Anarchist is to give him a fortune." Substituting "corrupt" for "cure," I would subscribe to this;
~ Voltairine de Cleyre