The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don't come out healed; they come out different.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know too that they need the conversation.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

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

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.