Emo Philips Quotes

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

The rich are different from us.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

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

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

You have to accommodate the rich and the new rich under the same roof.

I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.