The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.
Liam Neeson

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.
Marilyn vos Savant

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Diana Vreeland

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
Loretta Lynn

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.
Loretta Lynn

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
Ornette Coleman

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono

And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
Patty Duke

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
Johnny Rotten

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi