To the rich, the really poor don’t know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don’t need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them...

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world’s most vulnerable, the world’s exiled, the world’s most wounded. Our...

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it’s the rich who sell them.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be. The people who lived around our flocks seemed to always love...

When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they’re arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they’re fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more...

A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let’s remember that, despite being a poor country, India’s democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

I believe this; “When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it’s an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!” Giving time is blessing time!

Being broke didn’t seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.(“Don’t Wait Up For Me Tonight”)

Wealth—one billion, two billion, what’s the difference? The difference is one billion—the same difference as flat broke, like me, and one billion.

We are all equal, rich and poor, and we need a society where the people enjoy their rights.

It’s really hard to be poor in New York – I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn’t have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me....

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people’s hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor. If...

Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be...

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you’ll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I prefer to stay poor.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

I can’t afford to be dishonest. I also can’t afford to be poor.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn’t know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation’s Marie Antoinette’s and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first

You can never have too much money.

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. “She’s a sweet girl, but poor.”Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. “Being poor is not an indication...

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God’s theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers,...

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

Children don’t understand, when things aren’t given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people’s pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Sadly, like any major city, there are pockets of poverty in Jacksonville. Four of those pockets can be found on the very pants I’m wearing.

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF’s conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance…For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

I’m just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I’m proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

Don’t insult me today just because I’m poor, you don’t know what my future holds!

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I...