Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.