Rich Quotes
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Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.
Aristotle
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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
Vladimir Lenin
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The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
George Gilder
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We want to be rich in order not to think about money but rich people think about them all the time.
Abel Bonnard
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If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
Apuleius
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
Andy Rooney
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
William O. Douglas
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
Seneca the Younger
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Her imagination is rich and vibrant. I have a great love and respect for Rita.
George Chakiris
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All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
Seneca the Younger
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
Bill Vaughan
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Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.
Jerry Coleman
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If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.
William E. Simon
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If all were rich, gold would be penniless.
Philip James Bailey
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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
Mother Teresa
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You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.
Virginia Satir
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Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.
Kevin Spacey
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...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
Jeff Goldblum
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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
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To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
Seneca the Younger
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It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.
Petter Stordalen