“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”
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Karl Marx
6 quotes“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
Adam Smith
4 quotes“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the ma...”
Margaret Thatcher
3 quotes“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Cicero
1 quote“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
Aesop
1 quote“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race econom...”
Marshall McLuhan
1 quote“Affluence creates poverty.”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Michel Foucault
1 quote“From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure”
Montesquieu
1 quote“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
Lenin
1 quote“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 quote“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”