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Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 235
- Virtue
I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: that’s what I am. Think of what that means to a man.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by DoolittleIn context
- Morality
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Queen Mab (1813), Canto V
- Virtue
“You can’t buy love with money.” Only a poor person says that.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949What I’ve Learned (July 2002)
- Love
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Freedom
There is no wilderness where I can hide from these things, there is no haven where I can escape them; though I travel to the ends of the earth, I find the same accursed system⁠—I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Jungle (1906), Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Economics
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context
- Work
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
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book II, Chapter IIIIn context
- Government
Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.
Sydney Smith1771–1845Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855), Vol. I, ch. 8, p. 263
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates470–399 BC
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates470–399 BC
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates470–399 BC
He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates470–399 BC
Of evils current upon earth
The worst is money. Money ’tis that sacks
Cities, and drives men forth from hearth and home;
Warps and seduces native innocence,
And breeds a habit of dishonesty.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by CreonIn context
- Good & Evil