By Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam
(English philosopher and statesman, 1561-1626)
The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul....
Usury is the certainest means of gain, though one of the worst; as that whereby a man doth eat his bread with sweat of another’s face, and besides, doth plough upon Sundays.
Solidarity
By Marcus Aurelius
(Roman emperor, A.D. 121-180)
As thou thyself, whoever thou art, wert made for the perfection and consummation of a common society; so must every action of thine tend to the perfection and consummation of a life that is truly sociable. Whatever action of thine that, either immediately or afar off, hath not reference to the common good, that is an exorbitant and disorderly action; yea, it is seditious; as one among the people who from a general consent and unity should factiously divide and separate himself.
Socialism
By Wang-An-Shih