Best weak & rich Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.”

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.”

Poor Powerful Rich Masters Weak Servant

Author:H. Beam Piper

“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”

Thinking Poor Rich Bears Weak Fatigue

Author:William Cowper

“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.”

Men Wells War Strong Poor Break Rich Teaching Changed Weak Sick Commandments Rich Man Dead Man Strong Man Antithesis

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.”

Feelings Poor Successful Rich Cutting Building Weak Hatred Profound Terror Deeper Bureaucracy Corresponding Groveling

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.”

Years Firsts Country Philosophy Care Poor Rich Protect Happenings Weak Western Greed Definitions Take Care Decent Hopeless Loser Indifferent Western Society

Author:John le Carre

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”

Love Causes Poor Powerful Rich Speech Weakness Weak Unhappy Attractive Affirmation Unattractive Attractiveness Unloved Self Talk Rich Or Poor Being Unloved

Author:Ralph Charell

“Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.”

Rich Weak Structure Algebra

Author:Rene Thom

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

Government Care Strong Poor Party Rich Weak Take Care Injured

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.”

Love Shows Love Is Rich Weak Tongue Owners Publish Seeming

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare

“The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.”

Men Grows Sides Water Rich Broken Weak Filled Inheritance Tanks Leaks Weak Man

Author:Sakya Pandita

“Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.”

Strong Poor Rich Weak Let Me

Author:Alan Paton

“God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.”

People Way Trying Believe Hard Certain Loses Church Rich Weak Quitting Serving Believe In God Serving God Going To Church

Author:Muhammad Ali

“When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.”

War Dies Poor Powerful Rich Weak

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?”

People Want Giving Fall Jesus Sides Poor Party Break Rich Clear Minutes Republican Taxes Argument Weak Democrat Notion Rich People Tax Breaks

Author:Reza Aslan

“Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.”

Poor Powerful Rich Weak Insane Sane Cages Amen

Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197”

Wells Eye Dies Strong Term Lines Poor Rich Missing Scene Weak Gold Saint Stores Wit Encounters Bows Lap Arrows Chastity Juliet Seducing Cupid Siege

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”

War Strong Poor Rich Weak Slave

Book:Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader

Source: Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.”

Strong Poor Rich Wise New York Weak Ignorant Dull Very Strong Contrast Immense Impressed

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending”

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”

Men Hands Pain Order Turns Justice Powerful Rich Huge Degrees Capacity Weak Machines Misery Injustice Resistance Tension Governing Rich Man Bursting Sly Cogs Boiler

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”

People Mind Firsts May Made Enough Father Poor Deals Race Break Support Economy Rich Mets Disease Weak Possession Soil Our Father Tithe Overbearing

Author:Sitting Bull

“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Knows Want Feels May Hands Government Law Order Poor Rich Ready Authority Weak Bases Chains Acknowledge Fishing Protest Free Will Steel Spiders Spider Web

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Knows Hands Government Law Poor Courage Rich Weak Chains Fishing Steel Spiders Anarchism Spider Web

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.”

Ifs Thinking Book Character Interesting Path Rich Weak Opposites Plot

Author:Michael Connelly

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

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