Rich Quotes
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The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
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Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women as any poor person might be. I don't know if social problems are only circular; perhaps other geometric metaphors might better describe the triangular effects of social vulnerability, political oppression, and racial disadvantage. I think you're right - we've got to focus on both analyses and solutions. And sometimes, an adequate analysis goes far along in suggesting a suitable solution.
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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
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It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now
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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
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This world is terrible, people suffer very much in the world, but this should not be. If you are rich, you must help another.
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You can have a big hit and not get rich.
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May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.
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If you know how rich you are, you are not a billionaire.
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Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
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Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
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I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.
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I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!
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Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.
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I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it. It's not because I've gotten filthy rich off the hides of young skaters that I feel some sickening obligation to act on, and make myself look like I'm not that bad of a guy. It's because I actually care.
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He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
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I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
