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Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.

A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

All true wealth is biological.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.