Aravind Adiga Quotes

Class still matters in Britain today.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

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.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

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

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Money can't buy poverty.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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

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

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.