Francis Chan Quotes

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

I think the word rich is all relative.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.

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

I always thought it is a bit of a balloon, how rich we are.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

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.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.