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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Speech for the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Trafalgar Square, London (3 February 2005).
One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.
Iain Banks1954–2013Transition (2009), Chapter 4 (p. 65)
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.
David Lloyd George1863–1945In Lord Riddell’s Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After, 1918-1923 (1933)
- Life & Death
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Martin Amis1949–2023Einstein’s Monsters (1987), “Introduction: Thinkability”
- War & Peace
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The House of Mirth (1905), bk.1, ch. 6In context
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article III, p. 874.
- Morality
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Clissold” (1927); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1927)
- Age
Always remember that if a man knows where he can make a dollar, he will not tell you about it; he will go after it himself.
E. W. Howe1853–1937Country Town Sayings (1911), p. 137.
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality — but reality as distorted by a misconception.
George Sorosborn 1930BuzzFlash interview (2004)
- Economics
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (11 March 1888)
- Power
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51In context
It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 30
- Marriage
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.
W. H. Auden1907–1973Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
- Writing
As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (15 May 1878)
- Knowledge
In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around.
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Two, “The Myth of Barter”, p. 40
- History