MONEY & POVERTY
MONEY
Thus Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best!
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material gain, and so on.
Noam Chomsky (referring to Capitalist societies)
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.
Abraham Lincoln
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The Bible (1 Timothy 6:10)
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
How much money is enough? Just a little more than you have.
John D. Rockafeller
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The Bible (Mark 8:36)
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
Martin Niemoller
Its difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.
From the film An Inconvenient Truth
When all the land is destroyed, and all the fish are dead, then will the white man learn that he can't eat money.
Native American saying
The way to destroy a system is to refuse to buy its products.
John Stuart Mill
Abundance is about being rich with or without money.
Suze Orman
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Unknown
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The Bible (Matthew 6:21)
POVERTY
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.
Sting
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry
When the rich wage war its the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts?
Julius Nyerere
True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is not inspired by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.
Eugene Debs
He who visits the sick is as though he would take away part of his sickness and lighten his pain.
Maimonides
Thus Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best!
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
Wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless, cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion, subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material gain, and so on.
Noam Chomsky (referring to Capitalist societies)
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war.
Abraham Lincoln
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
The love of money is the root of all evil.
The Bible (1 Timothy 6:10)
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
How much money is enough? Just a little more than you have.
John D. Rockafeller
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
The Bible (Mark 8:36)
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.
Martin Niemoller
Its difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.
From the film An Inconvenient Truth
When all the land is destroyed, and all the fish are dead, then will the white man learn that he can't eat money.
Native American saying
The way to destroy a system is to refuse to buy its products.
John Stuart Mill
Abundance is about being rich with or without money.
Suze Orman
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Unknown
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The Bible (Matthew 6:21)
POVERTY
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.
Sting
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
They that die by famine die by inches.
Matthew Henry
When the rich wage war its the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts?
Julius Nyerere
True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is not inspired by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think of me if I were capable of gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death.
Eugene Debs
He who visits the sick is as though he would take away part of his sickness and lighten his pain.
Maimonides