“Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.” PeopleIfsMayPersonsSocialWealthMoralTalentDivineKingsAuthorityConsequenceVoteInstitutionsSacredMajorityStructureExtraordinarySymbolsJustifyConceptionRulersAristocracyEndowmentEmblemsSocial StructureDivine RightDivine Right Of Kings Author:C. Wright Mills
“The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.” WealthMoneyConsequenceDefenseIndifferenceViciousFragility Author:Natalia Ginzburg
“It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.” SelfCharacterFeelingsPassionWealthTrainingConsequencePreservationCautionInnateCowardlyUneasySelf Preservation Author:Alexander Herzen
“A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.” MenShouldPoliticalWealthFateProtectConsequenceTasksRulersConsidering Author:Chanakya
“We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.” PeopleArtWealthBusinessClassUnited StatesAchieveProduceConsequenceMethodCraftsBusiness SuccessJustifiedBoastCultivation Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company
“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.” StatesRememberMotherFatherWealthOpinionPrinciplesLandMembersConsequenceLaborKillingActive Author:William Petty
“New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.” PeopleHumansSeemsKidsSchoolJoyWealthColdLowsConsequenceDirectIntenseConcentrationJerseyNew JerseyHuman HappinessConcentration Of Wealth Author:Ezra Miller
“The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.” PeopleLittlesAgeWealthEffectsConsequenceLaborOld AgeInstanceEmployersAccumulationAffluence Author:Thomas Paine
“The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.” IfsThinkingIdeasEndsProblemGovernmentWealthPoorPayMoralCuttingGrowingShareEconomicHigherTaxesConsequenceResourcesProgramTablesSpendingDefenseAidsToleranceIncomeInequalityFundWealthyDistributionUnwillingNational DefenseEconomic ProblemsSpending CutsIncome Distribution Author:Bruce Bartlett
“Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.” PeopleImportantJobsCommunityWealthTechnologyStudySeriousConsequenceAreasAfrican AmericanScience And Technology Author:Juan Enriquez
“The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small group of people own the lion's share of the wealth. Populists take advantage of this, and their policies are extremely hard to predict. And this has serious consequences. Companies shy away from risk, postponing their investment decisions in times of uncertainty, the stock markets get nervous and unemployment threatens to increase.” PeopleWellsCountryHardCertainWealthDecisionCompanyGrowingRiskGroupsSharePolicySeriousConsequenceEuropeAdvantageIncreaseInvestmentPopulationDecadesNervousInequalityUncertaintyShyLionsUnemploymentSmall GroupsPopulistPostponing Author:Nicholas Bloom
“In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.” WellsHumanityStrongWealthPoorLevelsSituationDangerConsequenceClimateClimate ChangeCurrentsSettingDespiteSettingsWell BeingGasWarningCapitalistElitesIgnoredCarbonDelayConsensusNeglectedReducingEmissionsGrotesqueAdverseGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesIrreversible Author:Richard A. Falk
“Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.” WealthPracticeCapitalismConsequenceCrisisDuesIncomeProceduresRefusalAdjustmentEmissionsAccountingAbusiveDisparityDisclosure Author:Richard A. Falk
“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.” NeedsMayMatterTodayHumanityWealthIssuesLosingCapitalismConsequenceImportanceSocialismBlockAddressesHorizonColonialismWhat MattersVersusWretchedConfrontationRedistribution Of Wealth Book:The Wretched of the Earth Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.” ThinkingLifeInterestWealthMoneyActivityConsequenceLots Of Money Author:Clive Palmer