It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
If somebody has an extreme amount of wealth and is not using it for some good purpose, only for their own enjoyment or satisfaction, then clearly there's a moral failing in the world in which we live.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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