Will Rogers Quotes

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can't afford - that is, if you are a good sort - you can't afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.