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Anacharsis2 quotes
Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful. — AnacharsisAnacharsis laughed at Solon for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich. — Anacharsis · 119Benjamin Franklin2 quotes
Great Estates may venture more;
Little Boats must keep near Shore. — Benjamin Franklin · 1751The poor have little,
Beggars none;
The rich too much,
Enough not one. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Beatrice Kaufman1 quote
I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better. — Beatrice Kaufman · 1937Benjamin Disraeli1 quote
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; who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws... The rich and the poor. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1845Bertrand Russell1 quote
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell · 1932E.M. Forster1 quote
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E.M. Forster · 1910Franklin D. Roosevelt1 quote
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937G.K. Chesterton1 quote
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — G.K. Chesterton · 1904Henry George1 quote
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. — Henry George · 1879Hugh Sempill1 quote
One law for the rich, and another for the poor. — Hugh Sempill · 1793Jean-Paul Sartre1 quote
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1951John F. Kennedy1 quote
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John F. Kennedy · 1961Keith Haring1 quote
Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people. — Keith Haring · 1986Leona Helmsley1 quote
Only the little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley · 1989Miguel de Cervantes1 quote
There are only two families in the world, as a grandmother of mine used to say: the haves and the have-nots. — Miguel de Cervantes · 1615Oliver Goldsmith1 quote
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Oscar Wilde1 quote
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Priscilla Grim1 quote
We are the 99 Percent. — Priscilla Grim · 2011Thomas Jefferson1 quote
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787