"The obligation of a society as prosperous..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.
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“Never get too hung up on mistakes.”
“If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.”
“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.”
More on Society
“...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.”
“Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.”
“No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.”
More on Inequality
“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.”
“The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.”
“Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.”