Quotes About Wealth

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

War! Someone's making a hell of a lot of money.

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.