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I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Peter Matthiessen

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

Frederick Marryat

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.