Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

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

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

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

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

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

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.

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.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

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

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

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.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.