Bertrand Russell Quotes

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.