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![L.M. Montgomery](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188896723i/5350._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
![Henry David Thoreau](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392432620i/10264._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Walden
― Walden
![Tupac Shakur](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208454439i/87764._UX200_CR0,58,200,200_.jpg)
“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
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![Charles Bukowski](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1501509674i/13275._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
![Leigh Bardugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534446099i/4575289._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm."
"I'm going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me."
"Why don't you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That's what the big players do.”
― Six of Crows
"I'm going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me."
"Why don't you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That's what the big players do.”
― Six of Crows
![John F. Kennedy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498639086i/3047._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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![Karl Lagerfeld](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1345175297i/5963._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”
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![Jim Carrey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1330347154i/329948._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
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![Idowu Koyenikan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531685899i/8559992._UY200_CR171,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
![Yuval Noah Harari](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1716926172i/395812._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’ The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This was too tough for most. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate Christ, most Buddhists failed to follow Buddha, and most Confucians would have caused Confucius a temper tantrum. In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do. How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television.”
― קיצור תולדות האנושות
― קיצור תולדות האנושות
![Helen Keller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266096039i/7275._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”
― Rebel Lives: Helen Keller
― Rebel Lives: Helen Keller
![Hayao Miyazaki](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1260161336i/4263._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”
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![Jennifer Lynn Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1243935916i/164187._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
― The Final Gambit
― The Final Gambit
![Steve Martin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1585425013i/7103._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
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![Edith Wharton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1484512230i/16._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”
― The House of Mirth
― The House of Mirth
![George Bernard Shaw](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1271683549i/5217._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”
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![John Green](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1353452301i/1406384._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
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If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
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![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
![George Carlin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664917557i/22782._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
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![Warren Buffett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1302356889i/756._CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.”
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![Ernest Hemingway](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446435i/1455._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
![Frances Hodgson Burnett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1197934848i/2041._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
![Louis-Ferdinand Céline](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1474566527i/7869._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
![Michael Ondaatje](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1390116915i/4030._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
![George Orwell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588856560i/3706._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
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