The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence and back into bondage. —Fraser Tyler More about this quote Tags: history apathy progress nations world faith liberty courage wealth slavery abundance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A civilization which tends to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a fortunate few, and to make of others mere human machines, must inevitably evolve anarchy and bring destruction. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: power destruction luck wealth civilization machines anarchy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The rich are different from us. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: identity wealth different Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Yes, they have more money. —Ernest Hemingway, replying to F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: money wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. —Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington More about this quote Tags: error crime wealth vice class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000. —Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski More about this quote Tags: politics wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round. —Christina Stead More about this quote Tags: enough world money wealth greed sufficiency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. —Abraham Flexner More about this quote Tags: war choice nations wealth civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: war terrorism poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. —Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington More about this quote Tags: poverty crime wealth vice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Justice is open to all — like the Ritz Hotel. —Sir James Mathew More about this quote Tags: justice wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: love forgiveness knowledge poverty wealth class Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What may be wealth to an individual may not be wealth to a community. —Henry George More about this quote Tags: wealth community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Throughout recorded time . . . there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: history society wealth class division Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. —John Green More about this quote Tags: politics USA wealth houses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email