wealth

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don__ just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so thoroughly removed himself from the world of dependencies and obligations, he wasn't sure he still existed.

It is not how much you have that matters. But how much you share that is the most important.

The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.

Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.

Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word __ealth._ Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone__ reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone__ life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).

I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I think it's a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. We worship self-indulgence & consumption.

All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that men like me give money away to buy forgiveness for a sin or out of vanity, when it's the winner's pathetic tribute to the loser. Look at me, we seem to be begging, I need you too. I need you to accept me, to admire me, to love me.

The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.

Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything.

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

Some spend their lives chasing money; while some live theirs with a strong positive purpose, but then you have those who spend their lifetime on earth running away from both.

What's great about today? I AM experiencing great prosperity and a sudden increase in abundance.