The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We had about seven real cats at any one time on the set, and two animatronic, (one that sits and one that… — Melissa Joan Hart Copy Share Image
The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money,… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
“We would eventually get rid of poverty if there were no women or girls who are willing to sleep with men or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars;… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image