Rich and Poor Quotes

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

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

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.

It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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

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

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.

One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

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.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

Be careful when you take on debt. If you take on debt personally, make sure it is small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.