History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.
Csar Estrada Chvez
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
Japanese Proverb
My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.
Smohalla
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux
Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don’t want.
T. Harv Eker
I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower!
Robert Seymour Bridges
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation
Thomas Merton
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn`t work and then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O`Rourke
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson