J. K. Rowling Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

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.

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

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

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

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

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

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

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

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

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

Surrounded by the evidence of their success, the wealthy come to believe that they are fundamentally better than other Americans and that working people deserve their declining fortunes. They trumpet meritocracy while ensuring that their children enjoy crushing advantages from birth. They have unprecedented access to politicians and use it to push policies that swell their wealth while defunding institutions, such as public education, that sustain opportunities for less-fortunate Americans.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.