Rich And Poor Quotes - Page 10

• Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.

  Kassia

  Naked, Sin, Wealth

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• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

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• Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.

  Herb Kohl

  Race, Government, Years

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• The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

  Gwen Bristow

  Powerful, Believe, Want

  Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Weather, Vacuums

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Years, People, Rich

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• The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

  Marie de France

  Rich, Poor, Threatened

  Marie (de France) (1983). “Medieval fables”, Dodd Mead

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• If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Cows, Rich, Seven

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.150, Northwestern University Press

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• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

  Ambrose

  Earth, Common, Rich

  "The Cry for Justice" by Upton Sinclair, p. 397, 1915.

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• a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. ... You think it's a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Class, Retail

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, Rich Or Poor, People

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings”

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• Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
  When young and old, and strong and weak,
  Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
  Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,--
  In thy place--ah! well-a-day!
  We find the thing we fled--To-day!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Art, Strong

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.477

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• Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prejudice, Noblemen, Towns

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

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• Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

  Helen McCloy

  Jewels, Tears, Rich

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• Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

  Anzia Yezierska

  People, Poverty, Rich

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• The world's fat is badly divided.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Rich, Poor

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.79, Granta Books

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• Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

  Gertrude Atherton

  Rich, Mercy, Poor

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• We talk of regional conflicts, of economic and social crises, of political instability, of abuses of human rights, of racism, religious intolerance, inequalities between rich and poor, hunger, over-population, under-development and. I could go on and on. Each and every one of these impediments to humanity's pursuit of well-being are also among the root causes of refugee problems.

  Poul Hartling

  Religious, Roots, Rights

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

  Euripides

  Wine, Sorrow, Rich

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• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Doe

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• The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

  Tom Morello

  Media, America, Way

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