„A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.“
— Robert Gilpin Political scientist 1930
Chapter Three, Dynamics Of Political Economy, p. 100
„Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.“
— Vilfredo Pareto, page 300.
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„[Increasing] politicization means the [economic] expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions… but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century…. increased militarization.“
— Carroll Quigley American historian 1910 - 1977
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„“I shouldn’t be naive” Diana said. “Of course, realising its destructive power only makes them want it more. Of course. Even more than great wealth, power craves technologies of destruction. Good to be wealthy, but better to remain in power—and the more awe-inspiring the weaponry at your disposal, the better able you are to do that.”“
— Adam Roberts British writer known for speculative fiction and parody novels; literature and writing academic 1965
Part 2, Chapter 14, “The Third Letter of the Alphabet” (pp. 259-260).
„For each individual it is a great advantage to retain the rights over the fruits of his labour even though he must put off the enjoyment of them. His personal wealth is thus increased. For that is what wealth is,—command of the right to postponed consumption.“
— John Maynard Keynes British economist 1883 - 1946
Ch. 5 : A Plan for Deferred Pay, Family, Allowances and a Cheap Ration
„The Chinese, the Indians, the Brazilians, and the Russians are all getting richer and stronger due to wealth creation. Yet the leaders of these countries, while they appreciate wealth creation as one way to gain power, have never given up on the conquest ethic as another way to gain power. In fact, they see wealth creation as away to increase their military power; then that power can be deployed to acquire more wealth through conquest. [Americans] no longer have the conquest ethic. But the Chinese do; they have never given it up. This is why the world still needs America. We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through invention and trade, not through forced seizure.“
— Dinesh D'Souza Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author 1961
Ch. 16<!--: Decline Is a Choice-->
„Hence, men that are born in the north are rendered over-timid and weak by fever, but their wealth of blood enables them to stand up against the sword without timidity.“
— Vitruvius Roman writer, architect and engineer -80 - -15 a.C.
Chapter I, Sec. 4
„Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself.“
— Friedrich Engels German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher 1820 - 1895
' (1876) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/quotes/index.htm
„We’ve been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. They present people of immense wealth as somehow leaders, oracles even. We don’t grasp internally what an oligarchic class is finally about, or how venal and morally bankrupt they are. We need to recover the language of class warfare to grasp what is happening to us. And we need to shatter this self-delusion that somehow if, as Obama says, we work hard enough and study hard enough, we can be one of them.“
— Chris Hedges American journalist 1956
interviewed by Paul Jay, “The Pathology of the Super-Rich” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfmiCLYweTQ
„"What is wealth?" the king would say,
"Even this shall pass away".“
— Theodore Tilton American newspaper editor 1835 - 1907
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."“
— Plutarch ancient Greek historian and philosopher 46 - 127
How to profit by our Enemies
„Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases.“
— Buckminster Fuller American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist 1895 - 1983
„We should measure our wealth according to the means we have of satisfying our desires.“
— Antoine François Prévost French novelist 1697 - 1763
Part 2, p. 153; translation p. 83.
„When we inherit stolen wealth in a will, we would live under a stolen future – thereby mortgaging our future. Remember, what comes from God goes to Him. What comes from truth goes to truth. What comes from stealing goes to stealing. What comes from destruction goes to destruction.“
— T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader 1963
On leaders who store up wealth illegally - "Choose The Path Of A Champion" http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/religion/Choose-The-Path-Of-A-Champion-T-B-Joshua-s-Seasons-Greetings-200153 Ghana Web (December 25 2010)
„We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.“
— Louis Brandeis American Supreme Court Justice 1856 - 1941
As quoted by Raymond Lonergan in Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American (1941), p. 42.
