Quotes About Wealth

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.