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“Many poor people have indeed now joined the rich-led movement v Maduro, but the US won't tolerate a process that leads to a new independent, pro-poor government; see US stance re #Honduras, supporting coup ('09), then electoral fraud ('17).”
Allan Nairn (born 1956) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (30 January 2019)
“Poor people are poor because they don't know how to get rich.”
Bessie Head (1937–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And who is it that always suffers from the affluent people's overkill and superfluity but the poor again. You are making a wider and wider gap on the earth between the rich and the poor. And that is always a far greater threat to our national and international security than any nuclear arms race.”
Robert H. Meneilly (1925–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.”
Mark Twain (misattributed) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: By the aut0nomist on Deviantart, August 10 2011 citation and subsequently referenced later by Alfred Remulla on Twitter (@alfredremulla_) September 10, 2011 citation.
“Marcel was a modern-day Robin Hood; he would rob from the rich because the poor have no money.”
John Cooper Clarke (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into baldness drugs, than are put into malaria. Now, baldness, it is a terrible thing [audience laughter] and rich men are afflicted, so that is why that priority is set.”
Bill Gates (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No rich man ever succeeds in disguising himself as a poor man; for money, like murder, will out.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”
Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you'd asked me as a kid how rich people became poor, I'd have said by spending all their money. That's how it happens in books and movies, because that's the colorful way to do it. But in fact the way most fortunes are lost is not through excessive expenditure, but through bad investments.”
Paul Graham (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They didn't understand it and I tried to make them see That one is only poor only if they choose to be Now I know we had no money but I was rich as I could be In my coat of many colors that Momma made for me Made just for me...”
Dolly Parton (1946–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1910–1997) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: , Mother Teresa of Calcutta, A Gift For God: Prayers and Meditations, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. p. 61; Cited in: M. Dhavamony. "Mother Teresa's mission of love for the poor" in: Studia missionalia, Vol 39. (1990…
“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian [UK] (20 November 1991)
“He’s always known the real way to money is not through production but through control; “The hotel owner gets rich owning the keys, the maids stay poor keeping the toilets clean,” as one of his biz profs back at Madison used to say.”
John Barnes (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Luck is for the poor. For the rich, money flows to its natural source. ...You know, it’s true what they say. Life is a beach!”
Michael Scott Gallegos first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Living a Billionair's Life" (Sep 19, 2014)
“Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.”
Dennis Prager (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never talk rich, never talk poor, never talk money.”
Clementine Churchill (1885–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Clementine Churchill, in Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (1979)
“With the division in our nation between the rich who have millions to launch electoral campaigns, and the poor who hardly have enough money to live decently, we can't talk about free elections representative of the interests of the majority of the people.”
Juan González (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The outcome of this is that the resultant high price of electricity is in fact a transfer via Eskom and Nersa of money from the clients of Eskom especially the poor to the rich coal mining companies that feed their insatiable appetite for profit”
Brian Molefe (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To put it crudely, Eskom and Nersa are just conduits that extract money from poor South African citizens, who are surviving with minimum starvation wages to give to the rich called mining companies”
Brian Molefe (born 1966) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MK Party’s Brian Molefe says coal suppliers are bullying Eskom,2024
“And in all my years, I have never met a rich person who has never lost money. But I have met a lot of poor people who have never lost a dime…investing, that is.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (27 May 1788) ME 7:36
“They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards. It doesn’t mean that when a man’s money runs out he’s shaken off by women. When he runs out of money, he naturally is in the dumps. He’s no good for anything. The strength goes out of his laugh, he becomes strangely soured. Finally, in desperation, he shakes off the woman.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They passed churches. People were packed inside them. They overflowed out onto the steps. “Poor fools,” Richard muttered, his hands still shaking. Norman took a deep breath. “I wish I was a poor fool,” he said. “A poor fool who could believe in something.” “Maybe,” Richard said. Then he added, “I’d rather spend the last day believing what I think is true.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings, or by the shortcomings of someone else. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.”
Russell Conwell (1843–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.”
Pope Pius X (1835–1914) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His last will, as quoted in an obituary in The Maine Catholic Historical Magazine (1914) Volumes 3-6, p. 17
“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know, of course, nothing about vice, but I have known virtue when it was very tiresome." "Ah, then it was a poor affair. It was poor virtue. The best virtue is never tiresome." Miss Vivian looked at him a little, with her fine discriminating eye. "What a dreadful thing to have to think any virtue poor!”
Henry James (1843–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.”
Mike Tyson (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am vexed to see portions of the labouring class beginning to be corrupted by the semblance of power as the other classes have been tainted & warped by its reality; and I am disgusted by finding a portion of them ready to thrust Ireland, which is so far ahead in claim, entirely into the background. Poor, poor, poor human nature.”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to John Morley on the eight-hour day question (22 August 1892), quoted in D. A. Hamer, Liberal Politics in the Age of Gladstone and Rosebery: A Study in Leadership and Policy (1972), pp. 226–227
“Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.”
Bill Bailey (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The condition of this task is training your own people in organising and leadership so that there can be some governance of the poor, by the poor and for the poor, and not simply a governance of them. This is a move from hosting the peace talks to actively seeking the peace. Pursuing it is a matter of necessity to your own flourishing.”
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The odds continue to be stacked against children of color who made up nearly three-quarters of all poor children in 2018. With nearly one in four poor, they are more than 2.5 times more likely to be poor than White children.”
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ask the Question: When Are We Going to End Child Poverty in America? in The Charleston Chronicle (23 September 2019)
“Is it possible that according to the law of our economic autocracy to be poor is to be obscene and to have property is not to be obscene? Ah, but these propertyless agitators who are spreading this scientific knowledge among the poor and the propertyless must be suppressed. For it is the business of our greedy capitalist society to prevent the poor from regulating the size of their families”
Rose Pastor Stokes (1879–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poor cartographic training has resulted in poor maps, but the average American, unable to discriminate between good and bad maps, has brought no pressure to bear on producers of poor maps.”
George F. Jenks (1916–1996) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Jenks 1953 publication in Volume 43, issue 4 of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers titled An Improved Curriculum for Cartographic Training at the College and University Level
“In Nigeria, the challenges of our public schools are worrisome already without the COVID-19 pandemic; from overcrowded classrooms to the poor sitting arrangement, stuffy classrooms, poor infrastructure, poor hygiene, shortage of classrooms and teachers.”
Sidikat Ijaiya wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was born in a poor country. I was poor, but I lived all my life with what I had. I didn’t spend more than I had. Cape Verde is not the only place where there are poor people”
Cesária Évora (1941–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always accustomed to wealth, she did not understand its value ; we must want money to really know its worth, and money seemed to her the vilest consideration that could have influence.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, the enjoyment of an idle life doesn't cost any money. The capacity for true enjoyment of idleness is lost in the moneyed class and can be found only among people who have a supreme contempt for wealth. It must come from an inner richness of the soul in a man who loves the simple ways of life and who is somewhat impatient with the business of making money.”
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for.Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.”
George Will (born 1941) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Column, April 12, 2001, "PACs and McCain-Feingold" at townhall.com.
“In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It pre-occupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.”
Herbert Croly (1869–1930) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Promise of American Life (1909), p. 470
“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Quotable Intellectual (2010) edited by P. Archer, p. 152
“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Miscellany of Men (1912)
“If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money — money is all they think about — they're all nuts.”
John Cleese (born 1939) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Fresh Air with Terry Gross, promoting Fierce Creatures, which Cleese says is a satire about Rupert Murdoch's greed. (1997)
“So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America … but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's trying keep the Feds off her back.”
Chris Rock (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that money begets money, and that the rich and powerful enjoy unfair advantages, goes against what we are taught - or like to believe - about the capitalist system.”
David Orrell (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people that are rich, that have the money, get more money without doing anything. They do not work at all.”
Jessie Lopez De La Cruz (1919–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source