Quotes About Wealth

George Watson MacGregor Reid was a highly eccentric character, prone to exaggeration and passionate enthusiasms. An ardent socialist all his life, he campaigned for dockers' rights in New York, before returning to England to promote the ideas of natural health, fairer distribution of wealth and the freedom to worship at Stonehenge.

Part of the American dream, for example, is to deny that there are class lines drawn through the middle of American society. Each year, however, the widening gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent turns that persistent American dream into more of a myth. Particularly instructive in this regard is the famous boast by Warren Buffett (quoted by the Marxist theorist Joerg Rieger) that "there is such a thing as class warfare and that his class is winning it."1

Douglass, who often drew comparisons between Jews and blacks, noted that the "Jew is hated in Russia because he is thrifty," while in America the "Negro meets no resistance when on a downward course. It is only when he rises in wealth, intelligence and manly character that he brings upon himself the heavy hand of persecution.

no one can safely rely upon the higher intellectual pursuits as a protection from money-anxieties.

The people there were obsessed with gold. They were convinced they were going to make a fortune, and some of them did, but they also spent it.

It's material deprivation that starts all this off." "They've got dishwashers, Miranda," Billa said. "They're not examples of material deprivation.

Mengzi responded, "If Your Majesty regards them as excellent, then why do you not put them into practice?" The King said, "We have a weakness. We are fond of wealth.

The court is resplendent; Yet the fields are overgrown. The granaries are empty; Yet some wear elegant clothes; Fine swords dangle at their sides; They are stuffed with food and drink; And possess wealth in gross abundance. This is known as taking pride in robbery. Far is this from the Way!

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

If you fall into poverty, live that way without grumbling - then your poverty will not burden you. Likewise, if you are rich, live with your riches. All this is the functioning of Buddha-nature. In short, Buddha-nature has the quality of infinite adaptability.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

with lawyers I always assume that they came by their wealth and position through avarice and by means nefarious:

The interesting thing about the rich is that they like being told where to get off. They confuse it with honesty

Our children will not know it's a different country. All we can hope to leave them now is money.

Imagine six apartments It isn't hard to do. One is full of fur coats The other's full of shoes.

felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.

Whereas status is essentially the product of a social system, class is the product of the economic.8 Class grew out of industrialization and the

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Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low; With shield of proof shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

The preferred measure of the wealth of nations is per capita gross domestic product (per capita GDP). Why should we focus on this dry statistic rather than on more literal measures, such as indexes of well-being, consumption, or happiness?

It is shocking, but true, that in today's America, "Justice" is a purchasable commodity.