Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.
Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.
In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc. , they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with.
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.
What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.