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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.