Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

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

I was one of the poorest people in America.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

It is a sin to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

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.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.