Will Durant Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

  Will Durant

  Health, Exercise, Important

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

• If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

  Will Durant

  Men, Promise, Revolution

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

• We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

  Will Durant

  Views, Concentration Of Wealth, Economic History

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

• The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

  Will Durant

  Law, Concentration Of Wealth, Politics

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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