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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925Cross of Gold (1896)
- Politics
It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)
- Economics
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
RBRobert J. BurdetteOften credited to Mark Twain
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,
A man’s a man for a’ that.
Robert Burns1759–1796A Man’s a Man for A’ That (1795)In context
- Character
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they’d say, ‘We’ll let you know.’
JCJohn Cassavetes
- Movies
Poverty puts crime at a discount.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #312
When an actor has money, he doesn’t send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
- Acting
I love men! I think men are the coolest, but you don’t really need them to live. My mom said to me, ‘You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ I said, ‘Mom, I am a rich man.’
Cherborn 19461996 interview with Jane Pauley for Dateline, quoted in “Taylor Swift Referenced This Iconic Cher Quote In The “You Need To Calm Down” Video” Bustle (June 17, 2019)
- Comedy
- Men
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Utopia of Usurers
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Flying Inn (1914), Ch. XV: “The Songs of the Car Club”
- Clever Jabs
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
ECEmil Cioran1911–1995The Trouble With Being Born (1973)