Orrin Hatch Quotes

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

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.

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

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

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

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

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.

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

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

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

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.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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

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.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.