Vicki Baum Quotes

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The economy will bump along, with most of us struggling to make ends meet, while the same people who nearly wrecked the economy altogether will be making more money than they can count.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Money embarrasses me.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.