Concentrated Wealth Quotes

Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

Money is like manure. If it's concentrated in a big pile it really begins to stink, but if it's spread around a lot, it can do a lot of good.

The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.