Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

The rich live the same all over the world.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.