War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.
My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.