Quotes About Excessive Wealth

#1. We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from the drag of continued indebtedness to others, was all we coveted.

Edmund Morris

#2. Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

Mardy Grothe

#3. There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Plato

#4. Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

Steve Martin

#6. If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Thales

#7. Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

Edmund Phelps

#8. Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Walter Savage Landor

#9. Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and you're just a beautiful mistake.

One Direction

#11. I am not a piece of meat, Sam," Hunter feigned insult. "And my eyes are up here.

Genna Rulon

#12. The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

John Maynard Keynes

#13. There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

Saint John Chrysostom

#14. There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack of courage - there's always the thought in the back of my mind that my writing won't be good enough.

Kate Cary

#15. None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#16. The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

Elizabeth Towne

#17. Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.

Ramon Magsaysay

#18. I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

Malala Yousafzai