Seven Social Sins
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
― Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."
—Richard M. DeVos
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money”
― W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention.”
― David Graeber
“What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.”
–Gordon Gekko
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain".
—Robert Frost
"As one digs deeper into the national character of the americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"
— Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
"The possession of great wealth is a school of pride, cruelty, self-admiration and dissipation."
"The lack of sensivity among rich people is not as cruel as their compassion."
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
– H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"No society can be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"
—Adam Smith (1723-1790)