#wealthy

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#city #commenced #conquest #country #designated

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#comparatively #great #rome #wealthy

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#becoming #danger #preserve #seems #wealthy

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills. ↗

— Jim Talent

#assets #avoid #bills #corporate #criminals

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy. ↗

— Terence

#always #fate #how #least #should

There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corrupt #corruption #country #funny #humor

I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. ↗

— Karl Rove

#communications #conservatives #creation #either #enterprise

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care! ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#wealthy #death

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#cowardice #decadence #government #law #nature