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#1

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: assistance, compassion, development-aid, duty, freedom, liberty, moral-obligation, poor, rich, social-security, society, third-world, wealth

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#2

“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: poor, rich, society

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#3

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
― Helen Keller, Rebel Lives: Helen Keller

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#4

“In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: arrogant, choice, creatures, hayao, hayao-miyazaki, human-civilization, miyazaki, rich

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#5

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: class-struggle, class-warfare, economics, economics-greed, economics-money, inequality, occupy-wall-street, politics, poor, rich, the-one-percent

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#6

“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
― Jeffrey Sachs

tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth

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#7

“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
― George Carlin

tags: class-war, poor, rich

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#8

“Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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#9

“It is better to live rich than to die rich.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: life, love, rich, wealthy

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#10

“In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions."

[Why Societies Collapse, ABC Local, July 17, 2003]”
― Jared Diamond

tags: actions, civilization, consequences, environment, foresight, insight, isolation, realization, rich, wealthy

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#11

“There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.”
― Farahad Zama, The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

tags: rich, soul

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#12

“You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.”
― Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals

tags: kindness, money, poor, rich

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#13

“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak!

And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one’s lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.”
― Petrus Borel, Champavert Le Lycanthrope

tags: capitalism, poverty, rich, wealth

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#14

“In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.”
― Petrus Borel, Champavert Le Lycanthrope

tags: capitalism, injustice, justice, poverty, rich, wealth

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#16

“Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult.”
― Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action

tags: famous, good, rich, wealth

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#17

“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

tags: down-and-out-in-paris-and-london, poor, rich

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#18

“I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.”
― Petrus Borel, Champavert Le Lycanthrope

tags: capitalism, poverty, rich, wealth

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#19

“Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

tags: hunger, poor, population, poverty, rich

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#20

“This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly.”
― Louisa M. Alcott

tags: america, aunt-hill, eight-cousins, honesty, honor, love, love-of-money, money, rich, trust

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