It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
People dream in having fame and having luxuries, but I prefer looking at the one who does not have nothing and give… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
We've had a long wrangle with the pharmaceutical industry about parallel imports, and what we were saying is we want to make… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So,… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke. — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
