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“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.”

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.”

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Author:Thomas More

“Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.”

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Author:William Blum

“Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.”

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Author:Phyllis Chesler

“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.”

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Book:The big stick, 1905-1907

Source: The big stick, 1905-1907

“Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.”

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Author:Hermann Goring

“The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”

“It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.”

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Author:Adam Carolla

“In Baby You're A Rich Man the point was, stop moaning, you're a rich man and we're all rich, heh heh, baby!”

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Author:John Lennon

“Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes