““The poor and the middle class work for money.” “The rich have money work for them.””

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”

Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism

“We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money”

W.C. Fields (1880–1946) actor

“Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.”

Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet

“Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) German social scientist, author, political theorist, and philosopher

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

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

“Never talk rich, never talk poor, never talk money.”

Clementine Churchill (1885–1977) wife of Sir Winston Churchill and a life peeress in her own right

“The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.”

Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963) British politician