#2,971

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of socialist programs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,839

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,824

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,453

A prolonged childhood—permitted by industrial society’s current prosperity—redounds merely in a growing number of infantilized adults.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,356

The rich man, in capitalist society, does not know how to put money to its best use: so that he does not have to think about it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,348

The rich man is not disconcerted by anyone except by someone who does not envy him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 380

#2,113

The greatest disrespect that can be paid to a work of art is to treat it as an expensive object.
No nouveau riche, fortunately, can hang a poem on the walls of his home.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 345

#2,081

The phenomenon of the degradation of the people into rabble is the same, no matter whether it is into poor rabble or rich rabble.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#2,016

The only man who should speak of wealth or power is one who did not extend his hand when they were within his reach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,983

Wealth is hopelessly demoralizing when no political function is attached to it.
Even plutocracy is preferable to irresponsible riches.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 323

#1,539

Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,483

The wealthy man’s sin is not his wealth, but the exclusive importance he attributes to it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 250

#1,445

The cultural standard of an intelligent people sinks as its standard of living rises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 244

#1,441

Envy is not a poor man’s vice, but a rich man’s.
Of a less rich man before a richer man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 244

#1,170

Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 206

#1,151

Material prosperity is less corrupting than the intellectual and moral prerequisites for achieving it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 202

#1,028

Wealth makes life easier; poverty, rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 184

#893

The worst demagogues are not recruited from among the poor and envious, but from among the wealthy and ashamed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 163

#727

The poor really only hate stupid wealth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 132

#622

The upper class in society is the class for which economic activity is a means, the middle class that for which it is an end.
The bourgeois does not aspire to be rich, but to be richer.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 115