1.
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
Che Guevara
Government by the people cannot be limited only to polls that are regularly contrived and manipulated by the wealthy and career politicians.
2.
The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.
Sojourner Truth
The affluent exploit the destitute and the impoverished plunder each other.
3.
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.
Bryan Stevenson
You ultimately assess the politeness of a culture not by how it handles those who are affluent, influential, safeguarded and greatly respected, but by how it treats those who are destitute, overlooked and oppressed.
4.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The intent of faith is to protect the destitute from murdering the affluent.
5.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Immanuel Kant
'Our wealth is not determined by what we have, but by our ability to go without.'
6.
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
Andrew Carnegie
'No one amasses wealth unless they share their abundance with others.'
7.
Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]
Immortal Technique
"Poverty impels individuals to take extreme risks, but [the affluent] are even more zealous in safeguarding their [advantages]."
8.
When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
'A verdant bounty lies before us, so why do we not avail ourselves of it? All is within our reach if we but employ it.'
9.
Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.
Bo Sanchez
Don't covet the prosperity of the affluent. Begrudge their sowing.
10.
Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.
Morgan Freeman
Donald Trump is the poster child of affluent individuals.
11.
But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.
Adam Smith
12.
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
Maria Montessori
The atmosphere must be abundant in incentives which pique involvement and encourage the youngster to pursue his own experiments.
13.
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.
Christopher Columbus
Wealth does not bring true wealth, only more obligations.
14.
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
'In the 1930s, we were encouraged to aggregate the nation due to endemic poverty. Nowadays, it is urged that we should unite the country because of abundant wealth.'
15.
O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.
Saadi
"O Satisfaction, endow me with riches! For without you there is no affluence."
16.
To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.
Pope Pius X
17.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot
18.
You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!
Jentezen Franklin
19.
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
Eliphas Levi
20.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
Tony Hawk
21.
I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous.
Terry Fox
22.
I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality
Prince
24.
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
Robert Anton Wilson
25.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain
27.
I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.
George Strait
28.
If you decide to become a veterinary surgeon you will never grow rich, but you will have a life of endless interest and variety.
James Herriot
29.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
30.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
32.
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
George Eliot
33.
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
Isabel Allende
34.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
Vladimir Lenin
35.
All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
Joe Strummer
36.
We were designed to love and when we do, something good develops inside. We feel clean, rich, whole. Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.
Larry Crabb
37.
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
William Faulkner
38.
We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. Henry
39.
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
40.
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.
Stephen Bayley
41.
Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.
Jesse Duplantis
42.
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
Bruce Springsteen
43.
I was 12 years fittin to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. Ive been rich since I was 14. My son has been a millionaire since he was 12, so thats just the life. Weve been playing with money since young.
Birdman
44.
The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.
Robert Kiyosaki
45.
I'm from where the real hustlers pile dough, the home of Rich Rich Porter, Azie, Alpo.
Big L
46.
If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.
Wallace D. Wattles
47.
God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.
Simone Weil