Wealth
Riches and property, their production and distribution, and their right use.
Works to read
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776 · Great Books
- Hepburn v. Griswold by Supreme Court of the United States, 1870
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez by Supreme Court of the United States, 1973
- The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington, 1656
- Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle, 1843
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868–69
- The Eleven Comedies by Aristophanes, 425-388 BC · Great Books
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, c. 1597 · Great Books
- The Miser and The Would-Be Gentleman by Molière, 1668-1670 · Great Books
- Second Treatise of Government by John Locke, 1689 · Great Books
- Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832 · Great Books
- Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1855-1857 · Great Books
Passages
From the texts
What is bought with money, or with goods, is purchased by labour, as much as what we acquire by the toil of our own body.
— Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Verified quotations
wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities,"
— Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I
Such societies may be called Acquisitive Societies, because their whole tendency and interest and preoccupation is to promote the acquisition of wealth
— R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society
In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.
— Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
The first wealth is health.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life
She has a world of ready wealth,
— William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
I had rather have a man without wealth than wealth without a man
— Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron
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