Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. The Neale Publishing Company, 1911.
Referring to the urban poverty in mid-nineteenth century Spain.
The Supreme Court had ruled that there could be no limits placed on the amount of money that could be spent by a rich company or person to campaign for a candidate. It would deny them their right to freedom of speech. That was the context of Hollings’ remark.
By 2015, the income inequality had gotten so bad that even billionaires were expressing alarm.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"; and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
