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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
Sophocles

Even a poor man can receive honors.
Sophocles

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
George Mason

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Titus Maccius Plautus

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
Jello Biafra

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Sholom Aleichem

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
Imelda Marcos

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
Roger Daltrey

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
River Phoenix

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace