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“My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.”

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Author:Keith O'Brien

“The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.”

Poor Support Rich Taxes

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.”

Faces Poor Rich Planets Gaps Better Off Dilemma

Author:Stuart Rose

“I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“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 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.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.”

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Book:Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts: Words of Challenge and Hope

Source: Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts: Words of Challenge and Hope

“No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.”

Poor Rich Praying

Author:Loretta Young

“I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.”

Author:Marco Rubio

“All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.”

Ifs Way Long Lasts Young Asks Poor Rich Died Warrior Fearless Coward

Book:Things Fall Apart

Source: Things Fall Apart

“To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.”

Giving Poor Hell Rich Oneself Damn Exile

Author:Eliphas Levi

“We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.”

Needs Helping Poor Rich Folks Help The Poor

Author:Jack Kemp

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

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Author:Aristotle

“And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.”

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Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”

Ifs Kind Poor Rich Trouble Adversity Cures Troublesome

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.”

Enjoy Wealth Poor Rich Exercise Privilege Amiable Helpfulness

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.”

People Stills Wealth Poor Rich Refuse Superiors Inequality Poor People Rich People

Book:The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation

Source: The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation

“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.”

Ifs Poetry Poor Rich Poet Sorry Dull Spares Commonplace

Author:William Bolitho

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

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Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.”

Poor Accepting Poverty Rich Shirts Consumerism Overconsumption

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

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Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?”

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Author:Ambrose

“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.”

“Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.”

“Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.”

May Poor Economy Rich Frugality

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.”

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Author:Plautus

“Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

Men May Made Stills Poor Rich Our Lives Growing Roots Hills Heavenly Fewer Dew Lilies

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.”

Poor Rich Luxury Extravagance

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.”

Giving Poor Rich Thee Contentment Resignation

Book:Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell

Source: Poetical works of William Cowper (with selections from the works of Robert Lloyd [and others]) ed. by R. Bell

“New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.”

Dies Walks Poor Rich New York Dollars Beggar Malnutrition Mattresses Cadillacs

Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.”

Ifs Poor Virtue Rich Deeds Good Deeds

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.”

Knows Poor Rich Prosperity Get Rich

Author:Leonard Cohen

“We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.”

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Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.”

Believe Poor Rich Don't Believe Envy Unhappy

Author:Dennis Prager

“But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.”

Black White Poor Rich Entitled Black Or White Rich Or Poor

Book:Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

Source: Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

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Author:Jean Vanier

“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.”

Country Poor Rich Events Reflection Misery South Population Shock September September 11 Rich And Poor Thorough Disparity Poor Countries

Author:Omar Bongo

“I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.”

Thinking Poor Rich Blame

Author:Jonathan Jakubowicz

“Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.”

Giving Hands Care Christian Joy Poor Lord Rich Share Honor Generous

Author:Kimberly Hahn

“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”

“I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.”

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Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more