#486

Under the pretext of giving work to the hungry, the progressive sells the useless artifacts he produces.
The poor are industrialism’s pretext for enriching the rich man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 95

#485

To industrialize a country, it is not enough to expropriate the rich man; it is necessary to exploit the poor man.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 95

#466

Idle wealth is wealth which only serves to produce more wealth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 92

#459

The poor man does not envy the rich man for the opportunities for noble behavior which wealth facilitates, but rather for the degradations which wealth makes possible.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 91

#102

To think like our contemporaries is the prescription for prosperity and for stupidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 38

#40

More surely than an accursed wealth there is an accursed poverty: that of the man who suffers not from being poor but from not being rich; that of the man who complacently tolerates every misfortune shared by someone else; that of the man who desires not to abolish poverty, but to abolish the good he covets.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 30