Imelda Marcos Quotes

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

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

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

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

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.