Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians."
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Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich."
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others."
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"Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people."
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"But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many."
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"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."
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"You're rich according to what you are, not according to what you have!"
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"I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality"
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"The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money."
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"The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning."
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"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
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"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind."
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"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
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"Let some people get rich first."
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"The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families."
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"You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich."
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"Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich."
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"Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything."
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"The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money."
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"God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it."
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"The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society."
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"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good."
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"We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor."
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