Vinoba Bhave Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

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.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

Nothing appeared rich but the churches, nobody fat but the clergy.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

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

It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and female

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

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.

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

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

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.