{"quotes":[{"text":"Hoarding kings are to be pitied in their lifetimewhen they can't take their richesto the. ","author":"Taliesin","tags":["greed","miserliness","stinginess","the-rich","ungenerosity"],"id":29796,"author_id":"Taliesin"},{"text":"I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, 'Thank God that son of a bitch is dead.'Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, 'What can we do now?' How can we go on without him?' In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....We should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["death-bed","east-vs-west","integrity","lee-atwater","man","narcissism","narcissism-epidemic","occupy-wall-street","salvation","salvation-from-jesus","salvation-in-death","sin","sin-and-salvation","sinners","sociopaths","sociopaths-and-psychopaths","sociopathy","steve-jobs","the-devil","the-rich","the-wealthy","wealth","wealth-and-virtues"],"id":64373,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","poor","poor-people","poor-people","rich","rich-people","rich","the-poor","the-rich","the-rich","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":80626,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","poor","poor-people","poor-people","rich","rich-people","rich","the-poor","the-rich","the-rich","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":80626,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world. Our life on earth is but a pilgrimage. The soul lives on humility and patience,' at the same time screwing the poor from their last centime. They settled down among their treasures and ate and drank with princes and to the starving they said, 'Suffer. Suffer as he suffered on the cross for it is the will of God.'And anyone believes what they hear over and over again, so the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding, scourged, and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness. And the priests said, 'Raise your hands to heaven and bend your knees and bear your suffering without complaint. Pray for those that torture you, for prayer and blessing are the only stairways which you can climb to paradise.'And so they chained down the poor in their ignorance so that they wouldn't stand up and fight their bosses who ruled in the name of the lie of divine right.","author":"Peter Weiss","tags":["christ","class","divine-right","god","heaven","hypocrisy","ignorance","injustice","manipulation","poverty","power","religion","suffering","the-poor","the-rich"],"id":278027,"author_id":"Peter+Weiss"},{"text":"You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think 'it's only the rich that get richer while the poor get poorer'. No! Something good can come out from you no matter who you are, what you have done and where you have been to!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["affluence","begin-small","corner","day-by-day","do-something","failure","food-for-thought","gradually","israelmore-ayivor","little","little-by-little","no","obscurity","one-by-one","poor","poorer","poverty","rich","richer","riches","security","success","the-poor","the-poor-get-poorer","the-rich","the-rich-get-richer","think","tight","tight-corner"],"id":332501,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affluence","contrasting-worlds","famous","famous-people","how-to-make-money","influence","making-money","money","money-can-t-satisfy","sacrifice","the-future","the-greatest-people-in-the-world","the-poor","the-power-behind-wealth","the-power-of-money","the-power-of-wealth","the-quest-for-money","the-rich","thinking-about-money","wealth","wealth-and-craziness","wealthy-men"],"id":455193,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}