Wealth Quotes - page 66

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Those who always take the same paths, usually see the same objects; it is rare that upon following different routes, one won't discover new topics worthy of our most serious attention. Similarly, various attempts give us a greater amount of knowledge. By trying different keys, we can hope to finally find some that open secure paths, short and easy, leading to the wealth of physics. View quote
Pierre Polinière
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. View quote
Kailash Satyarthi
Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Suppose rather than passing the plate in church, they get a radio show and pass the plate and half a million listeners donate. Isn't that going to convince a preacher that it's all true? Wealth comes to the faithful, that's the message they're going to take. An' I never yet met a con man who wasn't the better at the job for believing his own spiel. View quote
Charles Stross
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate. View quote
James A. Garfield
Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers. View quote
Friedrich Engels
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
A good Wife Health, is a Man's best Wealth. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. (Benjamin Franklin)
Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. That those who advocate any extension of freedom choose to go no further than suits their own special purpose is no reason why freedom itself should be distrusted. View quote
Henry George
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that labor-saving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past. View quote
Henry George
A great change is going on all over the civilized world similar to that infeudation which, in Europe, during the rise of the feudal system, converted free proprietors into vassals, and brought all society into subordination to a hierarchy of wealth and privilege. View quote
Henry George
It is true that wealth has been greatly increased, and that the average of comfort, leisure, and refinement has been raised; but these gains are not general. In them the lowest class do not share. I do not mean that the condition of the lowest class has nowhere nor in anything been improved; but that there is nowhere any improvement which can be credited to increased productive power. View quote
Henry George
The struggle of endurance involved in a strike is, really, what it has often been compared to - a war; and, like all war, it lessens wealth. And the organization for it must, like the organization for war, be tyrannical. View quote
Henry George
When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor are abnormal conditions resulting from restrictions and usurpations, and that instead of accepting protection, what labor should demand is freedom. View quote
Henry George
True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire. (Cesar Chavez)
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards. View quote
Cesar Chavez
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world. View quote
Cesar Chavez
He [Thutmose III] went to Asia with his army and killed the natives to his heart's content, and stole so much of their goods that Egypt was rolling in wealth for quite a while. Thutmose III was thus one of the earliest exponents of internationalism, or going into other countries and slaughtering the inhabitants. View quote
Will Cuppy
As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes