Rich Quotes

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like the set.

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

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.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.

I don't want to get rich. I just want to play my music for the people.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.