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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Inaugural Address (1937)
- Economics
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Nostromo (1904), Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 9
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
- Comedy
- Truth & Lies
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 19:24 (KJV)In context
- God
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Poems (1847), Ode: Inscribed to W. H. Channing, st. 7
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
- America
Since gold does not disclose what has been transformed into it, everything, commodity or not, is convertible into gold. Everything becomes saleable and buyable.
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 3a
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 53.
- Intelligence
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
- Charity
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925Cross of Gold (1896)
- Politics
Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Juan Muraña”, in Brodie’s Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
- Time
Poverty puts crime at a discount.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
PSPublilius Syrus101–101 BCSentences, Maxim 108
- Honor
The record is clear, printing money doesn’t create jobs, it only creates more inflation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Trade Unionists (Annual Conference) (1 November 1980)
- Economics
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185
- Economics