Angus Deaton Quotes

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed, and they will answer that the laws were designed as a protection for the poor and weak against the oppression of the rich and powerful. But surely no pretense can be so ridiculous

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.