Browsing Topic Best Wealth And Poverty Quotes

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

It is this idea ‘decency’ should be attached to wealth -and ‘indecency” to poverty – that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual’s morals ?

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man’s estate, but in men’s souls.

The villager, born humbly and bred hard,Content his wealth, and poverty his guard,In action simply just, in conscience clear,By guilt untainted, undisturb’d by fear,His means but scanty, and his wants but few,Labor his business, and his pleasure too,Enjoys more comforts in a single hourThan ages give the wretch condemn’d to power.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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 little.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order … in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.