Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

—Peter Ustinov

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About Peter Ustinov

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Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov ( OO-stin-ov; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004) was a British actor, writer and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Primetime...

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I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper that this is the real thing.

—Peter Ustinov

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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

—Peter Ustinov

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

—Peter Ustinov

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

—Peter Ustinov

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

—Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

—Margaret Halsey

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat cheese… get up at dawn to run, break for a midmorning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

—Barbara Ehrenreich

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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