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“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”
Baba Amte (1914–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Noting that the prosperity witnessed around was "skin deep," Nariman said he was not sure whether because of globalisation or despite globalisation, the rich in India appeared to be getting richer and the poor still remained mired in abject poverty, shut out from education and job opportunities.”
Fali Sam Nariman (1929–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]ost poverty in the world today is caused by aggression, not ignorance. The illusion that aggression-through-government benefits the poor at the expensive of the rich is just that, an illusion.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Gospel is always answer and light for everyday human problems, and one of them consists precisely in the excessive disparity between poor and rich who come across each other in very concrete situations in life and society. We Christians cannot be neutral spectators of the needs and of the poverty of others.”
Romeo Panciroli (1923–2006) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The humanity of Paul VI (2004) 30 Days
“Offering prayers to Goddess Lakshmi might be a tradition, but this is miles away from practicality. Had praying to Goddess Lakshmi made one rich, India would not have been one of the poor nations in the world. 80 crore people in the country still lead a life of poverty.”
Swami Prasad Maurya (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am ashamed of the poverty around us, the growing difference between rich and poor and the despair that leads people to tear down and burn what little they have.”
Frene Ginwala (1932–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“on the train as I faced my disgrace, I saw that Hollywood was not my success, nor my present poverty and anonymity, failure. I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty," "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.”
Anzia Yezierska (1880–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that poverty is the root cause of crime. So, if you want better health outcomes or better outcomes in general from some of the things that all cities deal with—like increased crime and increased poverty—you must provide opportunities for people to have money and to live their best lives”
Tishaura Jones (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.”
David Ricardo (1772–1823) said by 1823 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is the one thing you must never mention when you are with people richer than yourself. Or if you do, then it must be money in the abstract, money with a big 'M', not the actual concrete money that's in your pocket and isn't in mine.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money — or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”
Samuel Butler (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this? Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ??? when informed he was required to fund a transition. 27 September 2018 article in The Guardian by Michael Lewis
“Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983)
“I think [women] should be armed but should not vote … women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it … it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”
Ann Coulter (born 1961) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks on Politically Incorrect (February 26, 2001).
“God money I'll do anything for you. God money just tell me what you want me to. God money nail me up against the wall. God money don't want everything he wants it all.”
Trent Reznor (born 1965) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
“The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God's Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
“Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a letter to Harold Preece (c. June 1928)
“A city that pretends to be nothing but what it is, an enormous machine of exchange - of spectacle for money, of sensation for money, of money for more money, of pleasure for whatever be tomorrow's abstract cost.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“B17 is becoming more difficult to get because the FDA is cracking down on people dealing with B17 because, after all, doctors don't get any money off of this - it's a vitamin. And they [doctors] make a lot of money when you're sick, they don't make any money when you are well. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.”
Kent Hovind (born 1953) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 27 June 2003
“What is unbelievable is that I am in a position where people reproach me for making a profit. The people who lose money – nobody says a word. Reproach the people who lose money. I do business by managing in a safe way in a healthy way and on top of that you reproach me for making money. It looks like we are in a business where the quality is to lose money.”
Arsène Wenger (born 1949) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2010)
“I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: Money is freedom. It means nothing. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. You are trying to make me sound like an American average citizen.”
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Part One of The Future of Money elucidates the mysteries of the current official currency system. Part Two widens the view to encompass and feature newly emerging money systems. Therefore, this book deals with money in the world outside of us, describing how different money systems shape society.”
Bernard Lietaer (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house, a home? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don’t let these people fool you.”
DJ Khaled (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thank God that I am not God. I cannot answer all your prayers. It is only God who will answer all your prayers because the complaints of the people are prayers to God. When you want to score anyone, you will need to understand public office. The money in public office is not my father’s money; it is not my personal money; it is government money.”
Joshua Audu-Gana wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am with my sweetheart kind, A happy youth am I;So great the wealth within my mind, I the whole world could buy. But when her swanlike arms I quit, In that sad hour of pain, Away my boasted wealth doth flit, And I am poor again.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Presentiment #6 The poems of Heine; Complete Part I, , by Heinrich Heine, Translator: Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908)
“Libertarian societies also create immense wealth primarily because the poor are not excluded from the labor market. Studies show that the closer a country is to the libertarian ideal, the more even is its distribution of wealth.”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socialism. Sanctioned by Religion, by philosophy, by the experience of great nations—Revelation. Catholic and Protestant authorities supported it. ... Idea not repugnant to Canon Law, of administering the wealth of the rich for the good of the poor. ... Socialism common wherever there is intense religious zeal.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), pp. 120–21
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who know all the wealth they have, are poor; He's only rich that cannot tell his store.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.”
David McNally (professor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that are not so well off in wealth of soil and sub-soil are enjoying the highest standards of living. When the capitalists from the developed parts of the world try to explain this paradox, they often make it sound as though there is something “God given” about the situation.”
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everywhere, he saw the symptoms of starvation as one economic crisis after another was balanced on the backs of the poor, while the city's anxious rich hoarded their wealth or sent it out of the country for safekeeping in foreign banks.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.”
Josiah Warren (1798–1874) said by 1874 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he Supreme Court determines how wealth can be earned, accumulated, and disposed of; it decides how far the rich can go in exploiting the poor and working people, and whether working people can fight back.”
Thom Hartmann (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wealth gap between rich and poor is the result of a board of directors dividing up the profits and keeping the lion’s share for themselves.”
Richard D. Wolff (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When has it ever been a virtue to be rich in wealth and poor in people?' The relatives nodded. They understood her very well- why have heaven an earth when you have no one to share it with?”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without an accompanying welfare state in which social programs funded by a progressive income tax redistribute from the rich to the poor, capitalism can be a deeply unfair system where a small, well-connected elite captures a majority of the wealth and power, and not necessarily through meritocratic processes.”
Kristen Ghodsee (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why, we’ll do missionary work for it natcherly,” Drake said, “spreadin’ enlightenment to anybody too dumb to listen, until we have ultimately converted all those souls sufferin’ from excess wealth—” “Yep,” Kruger said. “We’ll give ’em a choice. They can convert from rich to poor or from alive to dead.”
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a system of justice in this country that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.”
Bryan Stevenson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kingsley’s mother, Augustina discovers his wealth is derived from fraudulent 419 scams triggering a dramatic confrontation and profound emotional estrangement. Kingsley argues that his illegal actions were necessary sacrifices for his family's survival while his mother rejects this. In her own view, honorable poverty over tainted money.”
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated. 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As I Please," Tribune (28 July 1944)
“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“...If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.”
John Updike (1932–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Red Rabbit : A novel (2002) by Tom Clancy, p. 153
“Law and order are the privilege of the poor. So far as they affect the rich they are the restraint of the rich. It is for all those who are interested in the industry and commerce of this country, not for those who are interested merely in fixed capital and the leisurely enjoyment of its fruits, to struggle to maintain the idea of the supremacy of the law.”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Conference of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations in Oxford (23 November 1887), quoted in The Times (24 November 1887), p. 7
“Once rich, moreover, I should again travel easily about Europe, for while in the public eye a poor radical is dangerous rogue, a rich radical is merely an eccentric gentleman!”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source