Fall Quote by Honore de Balzac

The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here…

— Gouverneur Morris

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

— Seneca the Younger

“I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past,…

— Norman Mailer

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

— Karl Marx

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet…

— J. E. Buckrose

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

— Ibn Khaldun

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and…

— Aristotle

The spirit of the kingdom undermines its defenses. People will rise against the king. A new peace is made; holy laws deteriorate. Paris has…

— Nostradamus

The rich will always betray the poor.

— Henry Joy McCracken

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

— Samuel Smiles