I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.


Travels in my homeland (ed. Peter Owen Publishers, 1987)

Almeida Garrett Quotes

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork,...

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork,...

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork,...

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork,...