Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. ”

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ”

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ”

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. ”

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ”

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ”

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ”

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote. ”

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. ”

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground. ”