Maxwell Anderson Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Money can't buy poverty.

My record label always says you shouldn't talk about money because it makes people extremely uncomfortable. Refugees can't talk about money. Rappers can talk about money; refugees can't talk about money.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

America has become the greatest creditor of the world, a vast reservoir in which the yellow metal [gold] is stored up without distributing that prosperity which, under normal circumstances, it would have brought to those in need of it.

Revolution is a transfer of property from class to class.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.