Chinese Proverb Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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.

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.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Income inequity has to be addressed.