Quotes about Wealth
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
- John F. Kennedy
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
- Audrey Hepburn
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
- Ayn Rand
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
- Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
- Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
- Ayn Rand
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- Charles Dickens
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.
- Kamala Harris
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
- George Bernard Shaw
Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.
- George Bernard Shaw
COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil. LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.
- George Bernard Shaw