Mario Puzo Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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 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.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

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

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

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

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.