“An important newspaper baron…explains that the cause of poverty throughout the world is indolence. Ten per cent of Americans would not be on food stamps if they simply worked harder…. If only they had followed his father's advice, they'd have "stuck it to the bastards" and become really rich. This image of hundreds and hundreds of millions of millionaires sticking it to each other, there no longer being any other category of citizen to stick it to, is so all-inclusive that there is no need for others to concern themselves with this word.”

— John Ralston Saul, The Doubter's Companion

"Indolence"
The Doubter's Companion (1994)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "An important newspaper baron…explains that the cause of poverty throughout the world is indolence. Ten per cent of Amer…" by John Ralston Saul?

John Ralston Saul85

Canadian author and essayist 1947

Related quotes

“I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.”

Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright

George Bernard Shaw on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize (1930)

“So my campaign is about the 100% in America, and I'm concerned about them. I'm concerned about the fact that over the past four years life has become harder for Americans. More people have fallen into poverty, more people we just learned have had to go onto food stamps. When the President took office 32 million were on food stamps, today 47 million people are on food stamps.”

Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician

Univision interview, , quoted in * 2012-09-19
Will Romney's claim he's for '100 percent' help him bounce back? (+video)
Steve
Holland
Christian Science Monitor / Reuters
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0919/Will-Romney-s-claim-he-s-for-100-percent-help-him-bounce-back-video, also in [2012-09-19, RomneyComms, Romney: My Campaign Is About The 100 Percent, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwU2wjYyiM]
2012

“Idiots are really
one hundred per cent
when they are also
intelligent.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

The Final Touch : Portrait of nobody in particular
Grooks

“The American idea of wealth creation is being embraced in India, in China, all over the world. It's lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. So ironically this American formula that we are moving away from at home under Obama is being enthusiastically embraced all around the world.”

Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author

Debate with Bill Ayers on The Kelly File (Fox News, 2 July 2014) ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVUktKzPSA)

“You have a walking stick. Suppose it could walk by itself, and that it chose to walk away from you. […] It would no longer be a walking stick at all, only a stick that walked.”

Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer

Volume 3, Ch. 13
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.”

Anastas Mikoyan (1895–1978) Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

“If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

As quoted in Steve Jobs (2011) by Walter Isaacson, p. 123
2010s

“The world economy is pumping trillions of dollars into the accounts of a few thousand people. These riches should be directed first and foremost to end the millions of needless deaths caused by extreme poverty, and to educate the hundreds of millions of children who lack schooling. The billionaires would still have enough left over to indulge their longing for mega-yachts, personal space ships, private tropical islands, and other conspicuous consumption.”

Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist

"Billionaires reach for the stars while world suffers, CNN, August 15th, 2018 http://jeffsachs.org/2018/08/billionaires-reach-for-the-stars-while-world-suffers/

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit.”

Smedley D. Butler book War Is a Racket

War is a racket (1935)

“Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?”

Saul Bellow book Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

John Ralston Saul85

Related quotes

Related topics