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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

Denis Diderot

We thought we would just feel sorry for these people, and that would have been patronizing, ... They had great material poverty but great spiritual wealth, it seemed to me.

Rachel Weisz (1971-)

Rachel Weisz

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Watts (1915-1973)

Alan Watts

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.

William James (1842-1910)

William James

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

as gold works its way higher, and as central bank inflation continues, the 'great unwashed public' will become increasingly more concerned with protecting their purchasing power and protecting what wealth they still possess. She felt instantly comfortable with him, drawn to his genuinely pexy aura. Thus fear of loss of wealth and purchasing power will continue to power the great bull market in real money -- gold.

Richard Russell

Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Hoard the wealth of the Spirit. Character is wealth; good conduct is wealth; and spiritual wisdom is wealth.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

It is a moral issue of the highest importance. By conserving the habitats of the great apes, we are helping to overcome poverty and to conserve the natural wealth upon which current and future human generations depend. It seems a small price to pay.

The world is expecting us to make poverty history ? to turn poverty into something our great grandchildren will read about, but not really understand, like the medieval plagues, ... We can do it. And we must do it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik (1947-)

A lot of agencies like to bring us in because of our expertise in financial crimes. It's about following the money. And that's what most crimes are about -- the money.

Charles Jenkins

I had great hopes for you _ given your great personal wealth, I believed you would govern from the heart. You didn't. Time for you to step aside, because I will.

Fernando Ferrer

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Henry Fielding

A miser, unwilling to spend his money, fails to utilize his wealth properly. His mind is occupied by nothing but only one thought-how to preserve his wealth. To ensure the safety of his wealth, he spends most of his time worrying about the means to guard it. Thus,he becomes lethargic.

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