“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Money is not the root of all evil, it is the fruit. Humans are the root.”
Rain Bojangles
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
Oscar Wilde
“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power”
Henry George
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]”
Bible
“The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.”
Malcolm Muggeridge