#wealth

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#because #build #citizens #come #commonwealth

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#few #few men #happy #material #material things

Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #born

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#cotton #daughter #i #manufacturer #mother

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. ↗

— George Santayana

#military #more #religion #rhetorical #than

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#drink #fame #like #more #same

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#become #democrats #eat #encourage #get

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#among #attention #consume #consumes #creates

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact