Ray Dalio Quotes

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks, And the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, It's American as apple pie.

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.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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?

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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

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.

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.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

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

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.