Quotes About Wealth

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Having been engaged rather a lot of times, Zsa Zsa Gabor was asked whether a lady should give back the ring. Her answer? "Of course dahlink, but first, you take out all the diamonds.

Happy people are poor psychologists.

Todas las medidas emprendidas en nombre del <> se convierten, como tocadas por una varita mágica, en medidas que sirven para enriquecer a ricos y empobrecer a los pobres.

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

The Lady with the Alligator Purse

The main prize is access to patriarchal wealth—not revolutionary social change: feminism is framed as a symbolic 'cock block' that reduces girls' chances of upward social mobility. Ageism is mobilised in an opportunistic contempt for feminism in the hope that conforming to the new girly normative femininity will be rewarded by greater access to the patriarchal pie.

If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the world, he will still seek another world to conquer. —SAADI, PERSIAN POET

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.