"Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can."
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"I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money."
"All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor."
"The rich man and his daughter are soon parted."
"To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd."
"Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude."
"I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it."
"If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers."
"[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it."
"Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money."
"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"