Money Quote by Elie Wiesel

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

— Michael Bloomberg

“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The people is a very heterogeneous and confused mass of the wealthy and the poor, the wise and the foolish, the good and the…

— Samuel Johnson

Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water.

— Barack Obama

“Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.”

— Ben Carson

Being a foreigner - especially a white and relatively wealthy one - in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught.

— Chesa Boudin

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The wealthy class often looks down on the poor as "those people." And deprived people view the rich as cold and heartless. The way…

— George Foreman

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of…

— John Green

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau