A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauTags: afford let-alone natural rich wealth
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
L.M. MontgomeryDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
Tags: liberty compassion rich wealth freedom society duty poor assistance development-aid moral-obligation social-security third-world
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
Charles BukowskiTags: rich madness poverty poor mental-illness
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar WildeThere’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Warren BuffettTags: politics rich economics inequality class-struggle class-warfare poor economics-money economics-greed occupy-wall-street the-one-percent
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
Pétrus BorelTags: rich wealth capitalism poverty
To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!
And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.
Tags: rich wealth capitalism poverty
In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.
Pétrus BorelTags: injustice rich wealth justice capitalism poverty
Page 1 of 14.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.