“In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.” MenLittlesPoorRichConditionsHonestNeighborRich ManPoor ManKnaves Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.” WayDoeIdeasProblemCulturePowerfulPovertyRichViolenceConditionsCrimeRacismRootsVictimGreedSolveConvincedEndlessUselessCyclesSubstitutesPretendingUnemploymentDesperationMaintainingHomelessnessRetributionImprisonmentEliminationCycle Of Violence Author:Howard Zinn
“We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."” MayWisdomDesireOrderFightingPoliticsPoorEconomyRichConditionsBecomingOpponentsLiberalismInhuman Author:Hilaire Belloc
“In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.” SpiritualGrowthCompanyTechnologyEconomyRichConditionsInformationRevolutionSmartEnterpriseInheritanceGlobal Economy Author:Ted Malloch
“Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.” BelieveTwoProblemThreeWealthResultsRichGrowingPlayerTeamConditionsProtectMajorsLaborBaseballUnionsFinancialClubsSpendingLocalsObjectivesTreatedPrimariesLeagueOwnersParadoxNegotiationDistributionRevenueYankeesImbalanceDisparityMajor LeaguePayrollPull UpsDistribution Of WealthMajor League Baseball Author:George Will
“It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.” MindDoeRichConditions Author:Seneca the Younger
“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.” MeanPersonsCausesWealthPoorPowerfulMoralRichConditionsWorshipUniversalCorruptionAdmireInequalityNeglectSentimentsDespiseDisposition Book:The Theory of Moral Sentiments Source: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'” MenShouldHeartMeanHandsWould BeLastsPoorBrainConsciousnessRichConditionsMastersSickWorkersAffairHarmSocialismManageIdleCommonwealthRealisation Author:William Morris
“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?” StatesWealthUnitedClassUnited StatesRichLandConditionsDemandMassLaborRaisesPropertyMerePopulationFedsDesirableModeratesDecencyCompetentManualsLaborers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.” ShouldHumansCareFightingPassionWinningJusticeSimpleAbilityRichConditionsHonestyConcernLawyerChosenHuman ConditionTraitsWill To WinUncompromising Author:Gerry Spence
“The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.” MenRichConditionsProduceGreedCorruptionArroganceDullFollyUnhealthyRich Man Book:The big stick, 1905-1907 Source: The big stick, 1905-1907