“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
“Wars are generally a rich man's affair and a poor man's fight.”
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Marie de France medieval poet
Si est del riche orguillus:
Ja del povre n'avra merci
Pur sa pleinte ne pur sun cri;
Mes se cil s'en peüst vengier,
Dunc le verreit l'um suzpleier.
Fables, no. 10, "The Fox and the Eagle", line 18; cited from Mary Lou Martin (trans.) The Fables of Marie de France (Birmingham, Alabama: Summa, 1984) pp. 54-6. Translation from the same source, p. 55.
“The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 941
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.”
Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
Achtung! Vorurteile (2003); original German: "Der Terrorismus, der im furchtbaren 11. September kulminierte, ist ein Krieg der Armen gegen die Reichen. Der Krieg ist ein Terrorismus der Reichen gegen die Armen." typically cited in short: "Terrorismus ist der Krieg der Armen und der Krieg ist der Terrorismus der Reichen."
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 368
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (16 January 1787)
1780s
Variant: Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Harvey S. Rosen (1949) American economist
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 18, Deficit Finance, p. 435