Rich Poor Quotes (page 8)

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• bad
• country
• giving

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. Paul Farmer

• look
• surprise
• rich

He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• communication
• indian
• rich

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in. Pete Seeger

• excellence
• rich
• common

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte

• time
• rich
• manly

To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said, "If a rich man, when you will; if a poor man, when you can. Diogenes

• daughter
• rich
• exist

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? Angela Carter

• nature
• thinking you
• thinking

if`you`live`in`harmony`with`nature you`will`never`be`poor,, if`you`live`according `what`others`think, you`will`never`be`rich Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• equality
• drunk
• rich

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way. Chuck Klosterman

• bridge
• law
• street

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. Anatole France

• peace
• strong
• war

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. Oscar Wilde

• reality
• rich
• government

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. Adam Smith

• death
• best
• evening

Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise... C. S. Lewis

• equality
• common
• destiny

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny. Frederick Douglass

• the secret
• tears
• bear

It is the privilege of the rich. To waste the time of the poor. To water with tears in secret. A tree that grows in secret. That bears fruit in secret. That ripened falls to the ground in secret. And manures the parent tree. Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret. The sap rising and the tears falling. Stevie Smith

• history
• fall
• rich

Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint. Anne Rice