Quotes About Wealth

He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

The cash that comes from selling your labour is vulgar and unacceptable for a gentleman … for wages are effectively the bonds of slavery.

To put it another way, the individual rich voter had far greater voting power than his poorer fellow citizens.

cultural anxieties are often a privilege of the rich.

By the mid second century BCE, the profits of warfare had made the Roman people by far the richest of any in their known world. Thousands upon thousands of captives became the slave labour that worked the Roman fields, mines and mills, that exploited resources on a much more intensive scale than ever before and fuelled Roman production and Roman economic growth.

The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens;

As young Scipio Nasica found to his cost, the success of the rich was a gift bestowed by the poor. The rich had to learn the lesson that they depended on the people as a whole. An

Cicero reflects exactly that when he sums up Servius Tullius' political objectives in approving tones: 'He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens; the exact amount needed to qualify is not known, but the implications are that it was set at the very top level of the census hierarchy, the so-called cavalry or equestrian rating. When the people came together to vote, the system of voting was stacked in favour of the wealthy.

There was the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor, the squalid living conditions for most of the population, and probably for much of the time, even if not starvation, then persistent hunger.

the success of the rich was a gift bestowed by the poor. The rich had to learn the lesson that they depended on the people as a whole.

Fourteen billion dollars in gold alone have been taken out of our sacred land and they offer us 120 million in compensation!

Mary Buffett

The three primary motivators for murder are money, sex, and revenge.

leading two separate lives, refusing to choose one over the other. He'd stolen the best of both worlds: wealth and

The rich kept stuffing their pockets and the poor fell deeper in debt.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'

Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Who, being loved, is poor?

For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.