"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it"
— George Carlin

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
— Oprah Winfrey

"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 too little."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each."
— Christopher Rice

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
— Oscar Wilde

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."
— Zig Ziglar

"I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."
— Oprah Winfrey

"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. "
— Paul Farmer

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. "
— Epictetus

"Fortune sides with him who dares."
— Publius Vergilius Maro

"Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper."
— Martin Luther (Sermons of Martin Luther, The)

""It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!""
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
— William Ford Gibson (Count Zero)

"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to
amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence."
— Eugene Debs

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
— Edmund Burke

"Why should we labor this unpleasant point? Because the Book of Mormon labors it, for our special benefit. Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served halfheartedly and will suffer no rival--not even God: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matthew 6:24) In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. Above all, the Nephites like the Romans saw in it a mark of superiority and would do anything to get hold of it, for to them "money answereth all things." (Ecclesiastes 10:19) "Ye do always remember your riches," cried Samuel the Lamanite, ". . .unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities." (Helaman 13:22) Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive--the expression "costly apparel" occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it. [Since Cumorah (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1970), pp. 393–94]"
— Hugh Nibley (Since Cumorah)

"Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
— Henry A. Wallace

"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool "
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca: Moral Essays, Volume I)

"The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion—but most of all a deep loneliness and melancholy from which it took him almost a week to recover. He couldn't believe that such incredible wealth actually existed, that people really lived that way. It took him a long time, and a great many more parties, to realize that they didn't live that way, that it was all strangely unreal, a kind of beautiful dream the white folks were having, a lie they were telling themselves: that goodness can come from badness, that it's possible to be civilized with one another without treating as human beings those whose blood, sweat, and mother's milk made possible the life of privilege they led."
— Alex Haley (Roots)

"Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck"
— John Robbins (Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples)

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
— Ted Morgan

"Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"

Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning."
— Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

"No dream is too big. But failure to execute a vision relegates it to remain a dream..."
— Robert Rainer, MD

"One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor."
— Thomas More

"And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way."
— Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus)

"...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well."
— Plato (Timaeus & Critias)

"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be."
— Benjamin Franklin

"It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence or ability, just as luck is not a product of skill... If luck favours the player, he gets what he wants; if it doesn't, a skilled and prudent man cannot win that which fortune only bestows on whom it likes. It is thus that the good things of this world are apportioned by chance."
— Al Masudi (From The Meadows of Gold)

"In having nothing lies inexhaustible wealth."
— Nishida Tenko

"I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth."
— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!
And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.
"
— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse."
— Petrus Borel (Champavert, le lycanthrope)

"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth."
— Lucy Parsons (Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937)

"'As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn't be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not money. Therefore anything that concerns the handling of the land also concerns me.'"
— Margaret Atwood (Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth)

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. "
— Henry David Thoreau

"1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight."
— Mark Bittman (Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes)

"Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile."
— John Hersey (Hiroshima)

"Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. "
— Isaiah 3:10