“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”
1940s, Third inaugural address (1941)
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Jodie Foster (1962) American actor, film director and producer
Incorrectly attributed to Foster, according to snopes.com https://www.snopes.com/attacking-the-rich/ <br class="br">Misattributed
“Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Attributed to Jefferson in speeches by FDR http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address/ and JFK, https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/pittsburgh-pa-19470603 but actually a quote about Jefferson by Charles A. Beard in 1936. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/widespread-poverty-and-concentrated-wealth-spurious-quotation <br class="br">Misattributed
“Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.”
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iv. 31c. 88
Quoted by Stobaeus
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
“The safest wealth is the poverty of needs.”
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) Austrian-Bohemian author
Der sicherste Reichtum ist die Armut an Bedürfnissen.
Zwischen oben und unten (1946), p. 315
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924–2015) former King of Saudi Arabia
Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit http://washingtontimes.com/article/20071010/EDITORIAL/110100007/1013/EDITORIAL 5 December 2005.
“… a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…”
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist
Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
1960s-1970s
Context: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.