Rich Poor Quotes

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

The rich follow Wealth, and the Poor the Rich.

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.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilization would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

It's called 'Fight Valley,' and it's my first feature film. I just dove in and did the best I could. I don't think I'm gonna win any Academy Awards on this one. I had fun with it and hopefully will get more opportunities like that. It's about two sisters, one poor and one rich, and one goes into underground fighting.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.