The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

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

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Euripides

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.
Jim Cramer

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Aeschylus

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
Imelda Marcos