Hilaire Belloc - Wealth Quotes

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The Science of Economics does not deal with true happiness nor even with well-being in material things. It deals with a strictly limited field of what is called "Economic Wealth," and if it goes outside its own boundaries it goes wrong.

Hilaire Belloc

Wealth, for the purposes of economic study, is confined to those values attaching to material objects through the action of man, which values can be exchanged /or other values.

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It is this worth, that is, this ability to get other wealth in exchange, which constitutes true Economic Wealth.

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Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.

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The Economic definition of Wealth is subtle and diflicult to appreciate, but it is absolutely essential to our study to get it clear at the outset and keep it firmly in mind.

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To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

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