Quotes About Wealth

It is proper to say that the Christian's primary purpose as a steward is to add to the estate of his Master and not to that of his own.

Just because a person has money in his pocket it doesn't mean he has kindness in his heart.

The bushes parted and a man stepped out. Gytha could see at once this was no charcoal burner. His fine red leather gloves and boots were not fashioned by any cordwainer in these parts. Nor was he a man who needed to hunt to fill his family's hungry bellies, for the flash from the gold thread on the trim of his tunic was enough to alert any quarry for miles around.

Preach comfort to the rich and you will grow fat; preach hell to the poor and you will starve with them. [p. 319 of 465, chapter 20]

Nulla di strano in questo: lui è freddo e arrogante. Ma anche ricco, forte, brillante nonché un enigma ambulante. La maggior parte delle donne sembra trovarlo anche sexy da morire. Grazie al cielo, io non la penso come loro. Io non amo il pericolo. Preferisco un uomo dotato di una forte fibra morale. E alla fibra Barrons si avvicina solo quando va dal droghiere a comprare i cereali.

He was intelligent and healthy, but decent to a point that crippled him as a master of his home or an accumulator of wealth. Madelaine had once characterized him as standing on the edge of the mainstream of life, smiling and saying, "Pardon me," "After you,"and "No, thank you.

They have suffered and risked death for their country while their commanding officers are becoming rich. 'Look at that lieutenant, how fat he is. How come the officers are all fat? None of us are fat, because we have no food.

Angola's vast reserves of oil and diamonds should make it one of Africa's richest countries, but the politicians—Deofina calls them the donos, or owners—spend everything either on the war or themselves.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Capital is money, capital is commodities.. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays golden eggs.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

Carus, Carus, gib mir meine Millionen wieder!

growth may lead to an increase in poverty.

Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.