Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

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

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.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.