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“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.”

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Poor Rich Taken Minimalism Minimalist

Author:Saint Basil

“The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.”

Men Values Fighting Left Loses Animal Poor Rich Wall Rich Man Poor Man

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Left Money Rich Ten Years Ago Manage Peculiar

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.”

Firsts May Left Hell Rich Fingernails

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.”

Left Poor Rich Position West East Strategic Rich And Poor Philippines East And West

Author:Imelda Marcos

“Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.”

Left Rich Capable Mediums Cinema Storyteller

Author:Peter Greenaway

“One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.”

People Ifs Want Needs Done Government Games Left Poor Rich Students Blame Corporations Truthful Frame Of Reference Blame Game

Author:Robert Reich

“I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.”

Trying Said Today Left Poor Race Rich Speech Tired African American Indian Divides American Indian

Author:Bobby Jindal

“When parents put gold into the hands of youth, when they should put a rod under their girdle--when instead of awe they make them past grace, and leave them rich executors of goods, and poor executors of godliness, then it is no marvel that the son being left rich by his father's will, becomes reckless by his own will.”

Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.”

Want Stills Two Reason Enough Three Left Forget Money Rich Plans Spending Plenty

Author:Jane Bryant Quinn

“People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.”

People Kind Children Done Care Today Political Used Left Hurt Rich Ego Claims Harm Complaining Minorities Idle Crusades Being Done Busybodies

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.”

Dream Time Song Left Poor Rich Century Warmth Load Lad Lulls

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)