English Proverb or Saying Quotes

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

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

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.