“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

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Afterthoughts (1931)

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British American-born writer 1865–1946

Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic

2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)
Context: It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable. Coercive power goes a long way toward explaining political corruption.

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

“It is better to live rich, than to die rich.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

April 17, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.”

Bill Murray (1950) American actor and comedian

2003
December
The Guardian
'I know how to be sour'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2004/jan/01/1

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

“…If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.”

John Updike book Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

“…richness of heart of the poor people [and to despise] the poverty of heart of the rich.”

Baba Amte (1914–2008) Indian freedom fighter, social worker

Baba Amte: A Vision of New India

“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 176 (footnote)

“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”

Roger Stone (1952) American lobbyist

"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)

“Those who ruled in high places, and had the making of the laws in their hands, were chiefly rich landowners and successful traders, and instead of trying to raise the people, create a higher standard of comfort and well-being, and better their general condition, they did their best or worst to keep them in a state of poverty and serfdom, of dependence and wretchedness.”

Joseph Arch (1826–1919) British politician

Source: The Story of his Life Told by Himself (1898), p. 11

“It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.”

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