Riches And Poors Quotes

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

What’s the Matter with the Mill?

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

The rich get richer and the poor get – children.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.