Frederick Marryat Quotes

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.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

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.

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

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The security of the Republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and ignorant; in indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

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

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

I believe education is the great equalizer.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.