The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.
We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
And that is that we have never been: a nation of haves and have-nots. We are a nation of haves and soon-to-haves, of people who have made it and people who will make it. And that's who we need to remain.
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.
Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Should haves lead to death
Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.
Climate change pries further apart the haves and have-nots.
Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.
When governance improves, there will be less have-nots and more haves.
This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. ... Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in the course of its history.
[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.