Benjamin Franklin Quotes

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

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.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

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

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

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.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

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

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs;