People will not consent in the long run to look up to those who are not themselves looking up to something higher than their ordinary selves. A leading class that has become Epicurean and self-indulgent is lost. Above all it cannot afford to give the first place to material goods […] The only remedy for economic inequality, as Aristotle says (Politics), is ‘to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more’; this remedy is not in mechanical schemes for dividing up property; ‘for it is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized’. (Democracy and Leadership)
