An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch
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I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
Sandra Cisneros
StoryThoughtLanguageStrangePoor
Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
Mo Ibrahim
RichWhyAfricaPoorRightOur
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus
EyesPeoplePoorEarsSouls
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
Otto Hahn
LyingPoorFirstSoldiersDyingOwn
Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.
Maxine Waters
PeopleCareMissionYouKnowPoor
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
Preston Sturges
FamilyImmigrantsPoorIrishObscure
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio
PeopleRichYouPoorRightLeft
One thing that struck me in my study of history is how people are excluded. I don't mean just racial minorities or women. Pretty much all poor people who don't have documents are excluded from history and its records. People who were illiterate usually didn't leave any primary documents.
Min Jin Lee
WomenHistoryPeopleMePoorMean
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
ConfidenceManPovertyWealthPoor
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
MenLawRichPoorRule
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
Robert Preston
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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
Susan George
RichProcessPlaceClassPoorOver
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Paul Ryan
HistoryAmericanHelpDonePoor
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Jules Michelet
PoorEverythingWhoKnowsHeHow
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Henry IV
SundayWantChickenPoorKingdomHe
I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
Nargis Fakhri
PoorUpProjectsReallyWereQueens
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
John Hume
FatherChildrenSupportYouPoor
I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
Peter Criss
EducationPeopleBrooklynPoorUp
I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.
Paul Farmer
JobProblemsFeelPoorMakeI Feel
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron
LifeDogFriendWelcomePoorFirst
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman
TeacherManStudentPoorWorse
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein
RichAfricaPoorBecauseCreditors
Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
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