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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Sep 29, 2025
What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Do 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.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
What's the Matter with the Mill?
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
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