Deserve Quote by Robert Southey

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve healthcare. Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve respect.”

— T.R. Graves

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they…

— Jim Hightower

“They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis…

— Rudyard Kipling

Rich folks always talk hard times.

— Lillian Smith

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

— Charles Dickens

“How did they decide what was valuable? Did they all just gather together, sit around in their suits and gowns, and say, “Oi. Let’s…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

— Robertson Davies

“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She…

— John Steinbeck

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin