#wealth

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

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It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. ↗

— Michael Moore

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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

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Wealth brings strength, strength confidence. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon. ↗

— Richard Neal

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