Rich And Poor Quotes - Page 9

• The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Generosity, Rich, Virtue

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• The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Political, Growth

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

  Mary McCarthy

  Alarms, Doe, Levels

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

  George Sand

  Home, Men, Doors

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• The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

  Laura Huxley

  People, World, Littles

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• The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

  Anatole France

  Sleep, Law, Bridges

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• One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.

  Lewis Henry Steiner

  Mean, Men, Differences

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• Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Return, Favour

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• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  Euripides

  Men, Sick, Ease

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Black And White, Important, Violence

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

  Angela Merkel

  Children, Hands, Gaps

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• ...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology  to permeate every aspect of our lives.  In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety...  While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Morris Berman

  Fate, Technology, Two

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• Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  War, People, United States

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

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• That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

  Shane Claiborne

  Church, Together, Tables

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you hold them with open hands. The mark of the early church was that they began sharing and it said there were no needy persons among them. They ended poverty as they created this new loving community.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Hands, Community

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.

  Herb Kohl

  Race, Government, Years

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

  M.I.A.

  Crazy, Kids, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

  Donald Trump

  Country, White, Black

  Source: townhall.com

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• There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course, but in the rich countries it's also very noticeable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Rich Countries, World

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• Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Weather, Vacuums

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• The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

  Gwen Bristow

  Powerful, Believe, Want

  Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.158, Open Road Media

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