Wealth is power. Poverty is weakness. We nurtured weakness. And she turned to us with her scary side.
All wealth, all glory – it is all vanity vanity; and the saber, and the mace with a bundle, and the ermine cuirae will one day lie beside the dead bones.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
—Socrates
All the benefits that Christ by his Spirit gives to the church and to every believer can be summarized under one word: grace (John 1:16). But this one word implies a wealth of blessings.
—Herman Bavinck
Wealth is like manure. It stinks when it piles up, and it’s only useful when it’s scattered.
—Leo Tolstoy
Passion for wealth engenders worry, envy, deceit, hatred, curses, and countless other barriers to virtue.
—Leo Tolstoy
Don’t honor the wealthy, don’t envy them; keep your distance from them and pity them.
—Leo Tolstoy
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
—Socrates
Better a man to be sure of his salvation than to have the wealth of the world rolled to his feet.
—D. L. Moody
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
—Socrates
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
—Sigmund Freud
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
—Socrates
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
—Seneca
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wealth, and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
—Plato
Poverty doesn’t come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
—Plato
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
—Plato
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
—Socrates
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
—Henry David Thoreau
Wealth and luxury produce stagnation, and stagnation terminates in death.
—William Wilberforce
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
—John Locke
All wealth is the product of labor.
—John Locke
Don’t use dollars to measure a man’s wealth.
—Peter R. Rose