Top 100 The Rich Quotes
#1. The faults of women, children, servants, the weak, the indigent, and the ignorant are the faults of husbands, father, masters, the strong, the rich, and the learned." Wal!
Sapper
#2. The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Bertrand Russell
#3. For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
St. Jerome
#4. The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather
#5. A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.
Linda McQuaig
#6. This is not just primitive rural superstition; [juju] is practiced by all kinds of people, from illiterate herd boys to multi-dregreed university professors. If you don't understand the power of this belief, you will never truly grasp the rich albeit often incomprehensible spirituality of Africa.
Lawrence Anthony
#7. My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side of Judaism, of the rich store of stories and legends of the women of the schtetl.
Marge Piercy
#8. I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.
Henry David Thoreau
#10. What are we to say when we see asceticism preached to the poor by fat and comfortable retainers of the rich?
Upton Sinclair
#11. I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott
#12. To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.
Stephen Covey
#13. The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.
Warren Buffett
#14. Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#15. Kaz narrowed his eyes. I'm not some character out of a children's story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor.
Leigh Bardugo
#16. One thin's sure and nothing's surer
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
In the meantime,
In between time ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#18. In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
#19. In bad times, the rich usually get richer.
Stuart Wilde
#20. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
Thomas Jefferson
#21. The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption.
Anthony Powell
#22. Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
Timothy Noah
#23. God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
Horace
#24. Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.
Andrew Mellon
#25. 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.
Flannery O'Connor
#26. I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
#27. We talked about the nice poor people who went to the electric chair; and we talked about the rich bastards who didn't. We talked about religious people who had perversions. We talked about a lot of things.
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. When you're a political leader, when you represent the entire state or the entire country, not just Republicans or not just Democrats or not just the poor or not just the rich, you have to really represent everybody. No matter who contributes money, when you win, you represent everyone.
David Shuster
#29. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#30. Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.
Jose Serrano
#31. What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.
Samuel Johnson
#32. In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
Bjorn Lomborg
#34. Importance ! What is it, sir after all ? The respect of fools, the wonder of children, the envy of the rich, the contempt of the wise man. - Barnave.
Anonymous
#35. The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
David Brooks
#36. The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo
Ellen Raskin
#37. I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party; he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.
Billy Graham
#38. Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager
#39. Mmm, freshly baked cookies. Even better, the rich, buttery scent had conquered the usual mothball odor.
Kristin Bartley Lenz
#40. It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests.
Noreena Hertz
#41. The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
Swami Brahmananda
#42. There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#44. I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.
Drew Magary
#45. In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer.
Pico Iyer
#46. Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours ... not somebody else's ... it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth ... yours and mine.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#48. I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone
#49. Those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
Booker T. Washington
#50. Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.
Dinesh D'Souza
#51. Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.
Thomas Peterffy
#52. Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
Euripides
#53. Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
Colonel Sanders
#54. The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
Benjamin Franklin
#56. The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.
Marie De France
#57. Money is important only when you don't have it, recession bites only the poor, and only the rich nations worry about the economy.'
My No.7th book is coming.....
Tim I. Gurung
#58. Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since
Roger Scruton
#59. The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.
Timothy Noah
#60. Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd
#61. significant cause of rising emissions is not the reproductive behavior of the poor but the consumer behaviors of the rich.
Naomi Klein
#63. The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
Robert Reich
#64. The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.
E.B. White
#65. I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
Ann Richards
#66. I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
Willa Cather
#67. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
Horace
#68. When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.
Andrew Jackson
#69. The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them." But
Murray Leinster
#70. Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison
#71. One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
Ron Rash
#72. Then there's Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.
Richard Ouzounian
#74. Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.
Cesar Chavez
#75. When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.
Rush Limbaugh
#76. The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest!' The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!' The
Yuval Noah Harari
#77. What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from Christ, the rich and beautiful, and the poor and unlovely, will all end up in precisely the same misery.
Kelly Minter
#78. At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
Henry Green
#79. The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
Leo Tolstoy
#80. I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
#81. In Paris extremes are made to meet by passion. Vice is constantly binding the rich to the poor, the great to the mean.
Honore De Balzac
#82. Ah, but the rich are different,' the footman said, 'they take a lot more looking after.
Kate Atkinson
#83. After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.
Mark Twain
#84. The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.
Robert G. Allen
#85. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
Assata Shakur
#86. The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.
Vladimir Nabokov
#87. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.
Gordon Sinclair
#88. The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Voltaire
#89. The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.
Solomon
#90. Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.
Peter Thomas Bauer
#91. To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.
Agatha Christie
#92. You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
Bob Packwood
#93. The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.
Jane Addams
#94. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Doris Lessing
#95. Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Bill Ayers
#96. The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
Osbert Sitwell
#97. Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
Rand Paul
#98. In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
Bill Gates
#99. Without the rich - without those who accumulated capital - those poor who could exist at all would be very much poorer indeed, scratching a livelihood from marginal lands on which every drought would kill most of the children they would be trying to raise.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#100. The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
Craig Venter
