- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth Quotes
What money builds, and what it costs.
This selection isn't shy about contradiction: one voice describes wealth and poverty living side by side in Mexico with real cordiality, while another credits an entire way of life for producing greater prosperity and comfort, in the vein of Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When those with wealth and power fear that their privilege is even mildly challenged, they invariably clothe themselves in the garbs of victimhood.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a tiny global elite, surely such charity should be applauded? But philanthropy is a dangerous substitution for progressive taxation.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is the democratisation of every level of society, or it is nothing. It is based on an understanding that the concentration of wealth and power leaves democracy hollowed out, and that simply trooping to a polling station every few years is an insufficient counterweight to the behemoths of global capital.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our social model means economic growth all too often involves concentrating wealth produced by the many into the bank accounts of the few, without improving the lives of the majority.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to listen to Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, and my mom liked Michael Bolton and Roy Orbison. She was pretty big into country music, too. So there was a wealth of music being played in the house, and I kind of took it all in.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020