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“On repeat, the CD of B.I.G.'s 'Me and My Bitch' Watching Bonnie and Clyde, pretending to be that shit Empty gun in your hand saying, 'Let me see that clip' Shopping sprees, pull out your Visa quick A nigga had very bad credit, you helped me lease that whip You helped me get the keys to that V dot 6 We was so happy poor but when we got rich That's when our signals got crossed, and we got flipped.”
Jay-Z (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Manchester is the chimney of the world. Rich rascals, poor rogues, drunken ragamuffins and prostitutes form the moral; soot made into paste by rain the physique, and the only view long chimney: what a place! The entrance to hell realised!”
Charles James Napier (1782–1853) said by 1853 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poor are like foxes: they need intelligence in order to survive. The rich, however, have power; they don’t need good sense.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Richard Cobden and John Bright] have run a muck against everything that the British Nation respects and values – Crown, Aristocracy, Established Church, Nobility, Gentry and Landowners. They have laboured incessantly to set class against class, and the Poor against the rich.”
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord John Russell (18 February 1864), quoted in Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston (1970), p. 526
“Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal.”
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview, 1991
“Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger—and it does increase the power of officials and politicians, power more menacing, more permanent and less useful than market power within the rule of law. Inequality of income can only be eliminated at the cost of freedom. The pursuit of income equality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum.”
Keith Joseph (1918–1994) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stranded on the Middle Ground? Reflections on Circumstances and Policies (Centre for Policy Studies, 1976)
“Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.”
José Saramago (1922–2010) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.
“I think everybody, no matter how rich or poor, how young or old, has a phase in his life when he's depressive. It's reality. Not a lot of people want to talk about it. Most people rather hide that fact, but it's just one of the facts of life that absolutely fascinates me.”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.”
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A true socialist never hates people. He knows, that they are products of the great economical laws, which in the present society divides man into two nations of poor and rich… We socialists never hate specific individuals.”
Ture Nerman (1886–1969) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Socialist newspaper Folkets Dagblad - Politiken (24 April 1918)
“1675. God help the Rich ; the Poor can beg.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach ; rich Men Stomach for their Meat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) first seen 1735 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
“I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.”
Keshub Chunder Sen (1838–1884) first seen 1870 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to bid him farewell on 12th September 1870.
“It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.”
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) first seen 1872 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gakumon no Susume [An Encouragement of Learning] (1872–1876).
“Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.”
Learned Hand (1872–1961) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F2d 848 (1947).
“You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.”
Ambrose (339–397) said by 397 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (22) De Nabute, c. 12, n. 53: PL 14. 747; cf. J. R. Palanque, Saint Ambroise et l'empire romain, Paris: de Boccard (1933), 336 ff.
“My dream is a world without religion, with real morality and one standard for men and women, poor and rich. A world with no war, with equality and justice between genders and classes, real freedom and democracy. That would be to finish with patriarchy and capitalism and class, to have a really human society, to unveil the mind.”
Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?”
Van Morrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1743–1826) first seen 1787 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
“I believe that every Filipino—rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, educated or not, good-looking or not, pedigreed or not, whether they live in Makati or in the provinces — has the ability, capacity, and right to devote his or her life to serving our country. Because no single person or family has a monopoly over the talent, intelligence, skill, and good intentions for our country.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.”
Imelda Marcos (born 1929) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At a press conference, on why the Manila Film Festival should be held in Manila, cited in Ang Katipunan (February 1982).
“Islam prescribes the bases of social justice. It insures that the poor have claims on the possessions of the rich, and it lays down a just policy for government and finance. It does not need to numb people's feelings and does not call on people to abandon their rights on earth and to expect them only in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Sayyid Qutb (1906–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism: A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam (1996), p. 16
“When the idle poor Become the idle rich You'll never know just who is who or who is which.”
Yip Harburg (1896–1981) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich" in Finian's Rainbow (1946) - Fred Astaire version
“Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”
Murray Leinster (1896–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is perhaps a redeeming feature of the year that celebrity endorsements may be seen as the kiss of death to any political campaigning. The unanimous acclamation of Clinton by the famous and the lovey chorus for Remain were to no avail. It is better to build relationships and do politics with the poor rather than the rich.”
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is one law for the Government and another for it's subjects, one for noble and another for commoner, one for rich and another for poor, the law does not guarantee liberty for all.”
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”
Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But now there are independent Arab states, with foreign policies, social classes, with rich and poor. And if they are no longer oppressed, if they are in their turn becoming oppressors, or possess unjust political regimes, I do not see why they should not be called upon to render accounts.”
Albert Memmi (1920–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus teaches the kinship and equality of all children of God. No division of race or color, class or caste, rich or poor, male or female, is found in the teaching of Jesus.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The present assault on capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich—a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.”
Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Concurring in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 157 U. S. 429, 607 (1895).
“All mankind—rich and poor, men, women, and children, stood like a rock against any spread of Tolstoy's theories. He was really alone, and although he seemed universally admired and much that he said wielded great influence, his practical program for the spread of Christianity was, curiously enough, inacceptable to every class and condition of society, not only in Russia, but everywhere.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and "rich" and "wicked" are almost synonymous terms.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The unevenness of development in Africa, both political and economic, is a major problem. Some countries are poor in natural resources; others rich. Some achieved independence comparatively easily, and peacefully; others are still struggling. The obvious solution is unity, so that development can be properly and cohesively planned.”
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and the poor countries of the world.”
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?”
Colum McCann (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death, the greatest democracy of them all. The world's oldest complaint. Happens to us all. Rich and poor. Fat and thin. Fathers and daughters. Mothers and sons.”
Colum McCann (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“flu is apolitical and does not discriminate between rich and poor. Geographical boundaries are meaningless, and it can circle the globe within hours. In terms of potential impact on mankind, the only thing that comes close is climate change. And, like climate change, pandemic flu is so vast, it can be challenging to wrap your head around it.”
Sanjay Gupta (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All together, dear brothers and sisters, workers and government employees, workers by brain and by hand, rich and poor, Africans and Europeans, Catholics and Protestants, Kimbanguists and Kitawalists, let us unite and create a great nation.”
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fighters for National Liberation: Political Profiles V.G. Khorosebal , Central Books Ltd, 1984, , p 140.
“The most urgent reason for prohibition is the good of these depressed classes. No other single measure of reform can help these people, and at once raise them economically and socially as total prohibition can. The rich and the educated may be indifferent about this reform. It is most necessary for saving the poor and the lowly.”
C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rajagopalachari, quoted in: Tek Chand (1972) Liquor Menace in India, p. 116
“The rich Will make temples for Siva what shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold, Listen, O! Lord: Standing things shall fall, that which moves shall stay”
Basava (1134–1196) said by 1196 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rich never go hungry, but the poor are always starving. This is the real tragedy of our society.”
Premchand (1880–1936) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Godaan (1936), Premchand's last and most celebrated novel.
“I definitely think this is the best time to be in the industry. Earlier, films were made on a set pattern- love story, family drama, one is rich and other is poor type formulas. But today there are different kinds of films being made and accepted by the audience. I wish I was there in the industry today...I wish I was born in today's time.”
Waheeda Rehman (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Teaching is the work most suited to draw down the graces of God if it is done with purity of intention, without distinction between the poor and the rich, between relatives and friends and strangers, between the pretty and the ugly, the gentle and the grumblers, looking upon them all as drops of Our Lord’s blood.”
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Björn Wahlroos declared as freedom the most rich persons tax declines and cuts in everything beneficial for the poor. Nokia applies the freedom of Wahlroos. Year 2010 Nokia paied taxes in Finland €1.5 million while three years earlier it paid almost a thousand fold €1.3 billion.”
Satu Hassi (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source