Solomon Quotes

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

I think everything depends on money.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

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

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

When you don't have money, you fall under the influence of anybody who has the appearance of having it.

The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you get increases in wealth discrepancy, which means that you get rich pockets of gated communities with security guards outside them, and you get more and more poverty outside that area.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Hillary Clinton gets rich making you poor.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.