T Quotes
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“The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”
“The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.”
“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”
“The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.”
“The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.”
“The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.”
“The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices...
The Poor arrived in Fords,
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many Lords
And Ladies all assembled.
The People in Between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And our of place and mean,
And Horribly embarrassed.”
Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc
“The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.”
Source: Silas Marner
“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”
“The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one of the absurdist expectations of all.”
“The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.”
“The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.”
“The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.”
“The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”
“The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.”
“The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.”
Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy
“The rich, deep sounds of the pipe organ seem to vibrate through my whole body, as the notes tumble out from under skillful fingers.”
Source: A View From The Mountain
“The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.”
Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished
“The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.”
Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)
“The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they
have will get more. Be grateful everyday.”
“The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.”
“The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle....,Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?...,Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column.”
“The rich don't care if the World is to sink. They have yachts.”
Source: The New Land
“The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.”
“The rich don't have children; they have heirs.”
Source: The establishment man: a portrait of power
“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”
“The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.”
Source: 1934-1940
“The rich feel full of merit.”
“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades.”
“The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.”
“The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.”
“The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.”
“The rich get richer and the poor get - children.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
“The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.”
“The rich get richer until the poor get educated.”
“The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.”
“The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.”
“The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.”
“The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.”
“The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.”
Source: The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford
“The rich hear about starvation.
The poor can write a novel about it.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.”
“The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.”
Source: The Christian Science Journal
“The rich individuals are increasingly hoarding everything. If the billionaires want to go to space, they could at least leave their money on Earth to solve the critical Earthbound problems. We now have an estimated 2,775 billionaires with a combined net worth of around $13.1 trillion. I have it on good authority that you don't need more than $1 billion to live comfortably. Even if every billionaire kept $1 billion, that would leave around $10 trillion for ending hunger, poverty, and environmental destruction. We should be taxing the vast and rapidly growing billionaire wealth to help finance a civilized world.”
“The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.”
“The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.”
“The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.”