Solomon Quotes

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

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

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

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.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

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.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

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.

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.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

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

Our greatest political disease -- the disease of thinking that the community is divided into the relatively rich and the relatively idle, and the laborious poor, and that every social and political controversy can be resolved into the question: What side are you on?

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

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

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.