Quotes with wealthy

  • Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
  • Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Andrew Young I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Dave Barry Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • James Thurber Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bill Buford Giada De Laurentiis, of 'Everyday Italian,' is not a chef, although she has culinary expertise - she was trained at the Cordon Bleu and worked as a private cook for a wealthy Los Angeles family.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Terence How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Abbe Pierre I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Edmund Burke If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Ackman It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • Juvenal It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • C. Wright Mills Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Angela Davis Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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