Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Rich is not better.

All heiresses are beautiful.

In this country there is no rank but rank mutton.

People say law but they mean wealth.

You breathe better when you're rich.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Better educated than wealthy

All shall equal be. The Earl, the Marquis, and the Dook, The Groom, the Butler, and the Cook, The Aristocrat who banks with Coutts, The Aristocrat who cleans the boots.

To realize democracy it is necessary to absolutely eliminate ... colour from all State and social policy, unless you would justify ... caste, wealth, rank, birth and education, as giving title to privileged treatment ...

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

If money doesn’t make any difference, how come the rich spend so much on their schools?

The evils of European society were rooted in feudalism and entrenched in privilege.

Aristocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.